Word: craning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...streets of this world. He was 2,000 years dead and new prophets had risen up in His place," she recalled in her finely crafted autobiography, The Long Loneliness (1952). At 18 she moved to New York City, befriended young writers like Eugene O'Neill and Hart Crane, took a Marxist lover, joined the young labor movement and wrote for far-left newspapers like the Masses...
Americans thought they were through with political campaigns for a while. They certainly thought they had earned a rest, having endured a presidential campaign that began in August 1978 (when Philip Crane announced his candidacy) and then ramshackled extravagantly up and down the landscape like a jet-fueled, chaotic American re-enactment of the 11th century People's Crusade. But politics abhors a silence. That buzzing noise you hear, that distant clattering of political dopesterism now rising faintly in the land, is the sound of the 1984 election campaign at its earliest stage of development. Columnists are making their...
Councilor Kevin Crane '72, a longtime critic of the city's rent control, said yesterday "there would have to be some very serious reconsideration" of rent control programs if a Reagan task force...
...Crane said he thinks the task force report shows decreasing national support for rent control. But he added he doubts that many Cantabrigians have lost support for it. "There's public sentiment for some sort of changes in the administration of rent control, but not for doing away with it entirely," he said...
...Illinois Congressman Philip Crane stepped before a bank of microphones and television cameras in Washington and became the first candidate to declare his hopes in the 1980 presidential election. From Crane's opening hurrah down to the final tumultuous hours, TIME has followed the candidates mile by mile through the longest and most arduous campaign in recent history. As always, the goal was to produce clear, perceptive and colorful coverage, an effort that culminates with this week's special election issue...