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With a total of eight medals, four gold, the most hopeful U.S. team had the smallest yield in twelve years. But if the numbers were dim, the moments were bright, and the attitude of the least eminent athletes from the quietest sports added to that. "Up in the air, I was ecstatic, I could tell I had a good jump," cried Jeff Hastings of the U.S., still aloft after finishing fourth in the 90-meter jump. According to their own scale of accomplishments, people doing their best rejoiced. There was enough happiness in the Olympics. No need to want anything...
...hero of liberal Soviet intellectuals for his bold poems condemning anti-Semitism (Babi Yar) and Stalin's reign of terror (The Heirs of Stalin), many of which he recited on poetry-reading tours of the West. Beginning in the late 1960s, Yevtushenko's dissident fire seemed to dim, as he churned out "official" verse celebrating Soviet workers and attacking...
...Administration took a dim view of Jackson's diplomatic gambit. A State Department official said it was bound to "muddy the waters" of U.S. policy. "If he's there milling around," the official said, "we can't accomplish anything. It sends conflicting messages to the Syrians. It's just a political stunt...
...imbalance being caused by Soviet SS-20 missiles aimed at Western Europe, his Social Democratic Party has since changed its position and come out against the NATO response. In Britain, the Labor Party advocates unilateral nuclear disarmament. The crushing electoral defeats that these principal opposition parties suffered in 1983 dim their hopes of coming to power very soon, but Washington can no longer be serenely confident that any foreseeable British or West German government will back its position. Even the strongest West European governments must take into account the public nervousness. If the Soviets engage in a prolonged boycott...
...half-hour Empire will do nothing to improve TV's already dim view of the typical executive. Like J.R. Ewing of Dallas, most businessmen come off on the tube as antiheroes at best. A 1981 study by the Media Institute, a conservative Washington, D.C.-based group, found two of every three video businessmen were portrayed as crooks, conartists or clowns...