Word: deepest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...part of his would-be heirs has peeved Reagan. In his interview with television anchormen, the President said that conservative disapproval of the INF agreement was "based on a lack of knowledge." Then he offered a surprisingly harsh assessment of his opponents' motives: "Those people, basically, down in their deepest thoughts, have accepted that war is inevitable...
...most striking note in his TV performance came when he chastised conservative critics of his arms-control treaty. "Some of the people who are objecting the most," he said, "basically down in their deepest thoughts have accepted that war is inevitable." Not Reagan. If he could only get Gorbachev to join him on a helicopter ride over the pool-flecked neighborhoods of America, he believes, the Marxist leader might see things in the same way he does...
...remain. Furthermore, such arguments assume that only nuclear weapons--and not commonsense--account for 40 years of peace. Reagan himself put it best in what must have been a wounding retort to his critics on the right: "Whether they realize it or not, those people--basically, down in their deepest thoughts--have accepted that war is inevitable and that there must come to be a war between the two superpowers...
...Demuth could not place his deepest sexual predilections in the open, he could still make art from them. Seen from our distance, that of a pornocratic culture drenched in genital imagery, the skill with which he did this might seem almost quaint. But in Demuth's day, the public atmosphere was, of course, very different, and he, like Marcel Duchamp and other artists in the avant- garde circle that formed around the collectors Louise and Walter Arensberg, took a special delight in sowing his work with sexual hints. The handlebar of a vaudeville trick rider's bicycle turns into...
...well-thought-out (or at least well-rationalized) principle was operative too. Tynan reserved his deepest regard for what he called "high- definition performers," the elite who communicate the essence of their talents "with economy, grace, no apparent effort and absolute hard-edged clarity of outline." That description perfectly fits his reviews. He was, in them, a man doing turns on a high wire, the light refracting off his sequined prose, half blinding readers already dazed by his fearlessly leaping judgments...