Word: draining
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Vastly unlike most Ibsen in both plot and style, Love's Comedy traces the romance between the young poet Falk (Adam Swift) and the rebellious and idealistic Svanhild (Caroline Isenberg). Around them, innumerable friends and relatives are becoming engaged--and, soon thereafter, seeing all the light and joy drain from their relationships. Falk spends most of his time vehemently denouncing these engagements and marriage in general, but soon finds himself falling prey to his own emotions Svanhild, for her part, in choosing between Falk and another suitor, must weigh the conflicting claims of freedom, a "perfect" and fleeting romance...
...blurt out locker-room opinions in the guise of policy was one that I prayed he might overcome. If God heard, He did not answer in any way understandable to me. The arduous duty of construing the meaning of Cap Weinberger's public sayings was a steady drain on time and patience...
...government of once inexperienced revolutionaries seems firmly in control. The ruling mullahs (religious scholars) and some 100,000 Islamic Guards who protect them have, to be sure, lost some of their popularity and remain saddled with myriad difficulties: the fitful 41-month war with archenemy Iraq, which continues to drain men and money; a ruling class already decimated, and always threatened, by tenacious urban guerrillas; 2 million refugees from the front and another 1.5 million from Afghanistan; and the stigma of international isolation. But during a rare ten-day visit to the country, which has remained virtually closed to Americans...
...author calls the arms race a ruinous drain on U.S. resources that can never be won because each side will spend whatever it takes to keep up with the other. "We can no longer consider the nuclear arms race to be an unfortunate fact of life," he writes. "We must be as objective, pragmatic, flexible and unafraid of change as the decision makers who simply stopped making the Edsel." It is still to be seen, however, whether business executives will become the trim tab Willens wants...
...believes that economic inequality in the face of tremendous prosperity results in a less than great society an assumption that will, no doubt, irritate many conservatives. But he goes far beyond the widespread and simple view that the Great Society faltered and eventually disintegrated because of the increasing economic drain of the Vietnam war. The war's effects, both economic and social, cannot be discounted, but Matusow emerges from the partisan fog to reveal the contradictions and tensions within the Great Society programs...