Word: discoverer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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The key to a coherent understanding of Americans may lie in knowing that from the beginning they have kept two sets of books: their history and their myth. The two have always intertwined, of course, but they differ radically in purpose and content. The myth has always been the engine...
The paper remains essentially specialized, and does not convey a full sense of the nation or the world. The Journal's foreign coverage is surprisingly skimpy for all those foreign bureaus. Some journalists say that it lumbers after news, instead of sprinting. "Considering the size of the staff," says...
Many people still find it difficult to believe that anyone who acts as well as Frelich is really deaf, and backstage visitors are often surprised and stunned to discover that she cannot hear them. "The play will undoubtedly help bridge the gap in the understanding of hearing people," she says...
In the three years since that victory party, the Rebel forces have somehow wound up hiding from a revitalized Empire on the planet Hoth, which is nothing more than an oversized ice cube. Darth Vader and the Empire quickly discover the Rebellion's snow hideout and descend upon the planet...
Soviet TV is the government's loudspeaker to the people. "Television serves and will serve as a mighty weapon of the propaganda of the beautiful," says the party journal, Kommunist. Americans will not be surprised to learn that the propaganda programs are relentlessly boring. They may be somewhat startled...