Word: disappeared
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...prediction that future historians will look back on Soviet Communism as an aberration of history: I was certainly impressed by that statement. But I don't think the President advocates historical inevitability. He does not mean for us to sit and wait for Soviet Communism to disappear of itself. If that's going to happen, free people will have to help make it happen...
...upbeat note, Mitchell's hope seems to be a cop-out. Mitchell's conclusions are about as realistic as it is to expect arms negotiator Paul Nitze to conclude, "Sure there are nuclear weapons on the face of the earth, but maybe--just maybe--someday, they'll disappear." With overworked examples--if thorough ones--and with an endless array of profound questions. One can only ask why the author didn't spend an extra chapter analyzing the motives and machinations of men and whistleblowers...
...printed only five stories on Ethiopian Jews between 1975 and 1982, as opposed to more than 532 on Soviet Jews? Why does the extermination of thousands of Ethiopian Jews draw such an insignificant fraction of the money and public attention devoted to just one Soviet Jew? Until those questions disappear, a community will continue to be repressed and massacred--and ignored by an outside world that professes to care about human rights...
...costumes perfectly match their setting whether it be yellow pastels in Hyde Park, red, white and blue for the finale, or a jazzy look for the "Give my Regards" number. Visually, Robert Randolph's imaginative set and lighting design wondrously allow hotels, horse races and steamships to appear and disappear before our eyes...
...bargain. The instructive messages in public toilets, the phone numbers, the lively anatomical drawings-no loss in any of that. But some things will be missed. The desperate erudition on the walls of college hangouts, for example: ARS LONGA; VITA HERRING. The continuing message exchanges will also disappear...