Word: doubting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Many State Department officials, eager to distance themselves from what they regarded as a peevish stance, characterized Shultz's no to Arafat as a "personal decision." They were worried that it would undermine the peace efforts of moderate Arabs and cast doubt on the U.S. commitment to a negotiated settlement in the Middle East. They also fretted that the Shultz rejection made a mockery of America's commitment to free speech and jeopardized the Reagan Administration's recently improved relationship with the U.N. Nonetheless, both Reagan and President-elect George Bush supported the decision, although Bush made it clear that...
...begins when Bush sits down with Gorbachev in a Coast Guard admiral's mansion on Governors Island, a site in New York harbor that was picked for security reasons. In proposing the meeting, Gorbachev said he wanted to dramatize his hope for continuity in Soviet-American relations. But no doubt he also wants to use the meeting to remind the world that his own foreign policy is up and running, while the U.S. is only just recovering from a distracting and unedifying presidential race...
Similarly, the most notable research project now being planned is the billiondollar Superconducting Super Collider to be built in Texas. This will no doubt be an impressive piece of equipment, of considerable value to American and world particle physicists. But extremely large projects like this eat up tremendous amounts of the budget for basic and applied research. By spreading our money around to a variety of potentially fruitful areas, we will be hedging our bets for technical breakthroughs, and likely get a larger amount of information for our expense...
...this central quartet of characters, a comic trio is added. Elizabeth Dibbern as the Condomines' space cadet maid affects a Cockney accent that no doubt would make Eliza Doolittle proud. Both Blake Spraggins as Dr. Bradman and Valerie Steiker as Mrs. Bradman have enviable English accents. Yet it is the timing of these actors that makes their performances so strong...
...pastoral mode is on its last legs today, weakened by irony and excess self-consciousness; although a vivid little tablet of color by Howard Hodgkin, In the Public Garden, Naples, 1981-82, argues that it can still be used without a false note. But this show leaves no doubt about how much it mattered to earlier generations of artists or how enduringly grounded in man's desire for consolation it proved...