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...other countries proved increasingly independent, irritation mounted and our taste for cooperation began to wane. Our problems with OPEC, Lebanon, Iran, Libya, and even Japan dramatized the frustrations that seemed to dog us whenever we involved ourselves with foreign problems. Small wonder that the spirit of internationalism began to ebb...
...Wise men have remarked on patterns of alternation, of ebb and flow in human history," writes Historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr. in The Cycles of History. Emerson observed that "the two parties which divide the state, the party of Conservatism and the party of Innovation, are very old, and have disputed the possession of the world ever since it was made . . . Innovation is the salient energy; Conservatism the pause on the last movement." But that can be tricky. Reagan in his way was no conservative and was something of an innovator, who tried, with limited success, to reverse deep-rooted Government...
...Pennsylvania. Moreover, they require care, can bite and cause allergies. But what they bring can be hard to improve on. New Yorker Reuben Selnick, 61, a recovering alcoholic who adopted a cat named Oliver in Purina's pilot program, speaks for many. "I was at a very low ebb when I met Oliver," he says. "Now I have something to live...
...could philosophize about the Tasty, the ebb and flow of different types of people all caught up in the constant motion of time. I could wax eloquently about how the clamor of people crowded into this vintage 1950s diner mimicked the musical rhythms of "Classic Hits" WZLX...
...arrival of Walter Gropius, founder of the Bauhaus and undisputed holder of the "Mr. Modernism" title, reinvigorated the department, remembers Len Currie (GSD '38). Though "Harvard has always been tops" in the field, Currie says, "in '36 architecture was at a low ebb." Squabbles in the faculty, the departure of the old dean of architecture, and the sad state of American design during the Depression had shaken the school's confidence. Gropius's arrival boosted morale, and Harvard soon rocketed to the to the forefront of international design...