Word: darkeness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reminiscing about the World Wars, President Reagan revealed that as a first grader in Illinois during World War I, he experienced nightmares of the Kaiser's soldiers marching down Main Street [NATION, June 11]. Our President would wake up frightened and confused in the dark to ask himself, "Where would I hide if this were true?" I suspect that this is the same question that first graders ask themselves in the 1980s. James E. Kences Marion, Mass...
...illegal immigrants across the 2,000-mile Mexican border by discouraging business people from hiring the aliens. In theory, however, the provision would apply to every type of job seeker: Wall Street investment firms would have to demand documentation for Caucasian M.B.A.s, just as Texas restaurants would for dark-skinned would-be dishwashers. The major exemption is for people who employ no more than three workers; families with a maid or gardener would not be troubled. But firms caught hiring undocumented workers could be fined up to $2,000 for each such employee. Under the Senate bill, repeated violations could...
...halcyon Sixties had held the promise of getting what one wanted, whether it was drugs or free love or simply the freedom to be what one wanted to be. The seventies were dawning dark and troubled, for the Stones and for their fans. It would be necessary to come to grips with radically reduced expectations, to forget about casual wanting and get down to basic necessities. You'd better figure out what your real needs are and go out after them, the Stones seemed to be saying, and even that might not be so easy: "If you try sometimes...
...displays greater vitality than most of his Kremlin colleagues. His hair is slate gray but abundant. His shoulders are only slightly stooped, and he walks without a shuffle. His dour, dark-eyed face has been etched over the decades with downturning lines, but it is still capable of all the familiar flashes of emotion: the rare, stray wisp of a smile, the characteristic sag of one side of his thin mouth to denote disapproval, the sudden contortions of carefully thoughtout anger. However he has changed over the years, Andrei Andreyevich Gromyko has also remained the same: the enduring personification...
...sharp airs and knowing style, Charlie is a rather passive character. He needs the lift hat Paulie, bouncing through life like a Spauldeen in a stickball game, can give him. For his part, Paulie needs to be caught every once in a while and stuffed in a warm, dark pocket to restore his elasticity...