Word: echo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...incessant assault of gunpoint interviews is over, the Fourth of July cheers for the 39 returning hostages have died away and other faces are filling TV screens. But reverberations of the crisis are likely to echo through the U.S., the Middle East and the world for months to come, affecting matters ranging from Israeli Cabinet decisions to congressional votes on the American budget. In particular, Ronald Reagan comes out of the crisis enjoying a new lift in public support and praise from some of his sharpest critics, who confessed that in this case at least he was not the headstrong...
...fellow Californian in the White House. In San Francisco, which has no income tax but exacts hefty real estate levies, Mayor Dianne Feinstein, a Democrat, endorsed the overall Reagan plan as "a major step forward." Only in a few high-tax states in the Midwest did officials echo Cuomo's strong opposition to the loss of deductibility. Said Wisconsin Governor Anthony Earl, a Democrat: "If the federal government wants states to take on more responsibilities in education, in human services, in the environment, then they shouldn't penalize us for raising taxes to pay for them...
...meet her standards, she puts up a fight. "If I say . . . that the Winter Palace was stormed on Sherbrooke Street, that Trafalgar was fought on Lake St. Louis, I mean it naturally," she says. "They were the natural backgrounds of my exile and fidelity." Her words seem to echo those of James Joyce's Stephen Dedalus. "I will try to express myself in some mode of life or art . . . using for my defense the only arms I allow myself to use -- silence, exile, and cunning." . That could be the credo of Mavis Gallant's most affecting heroine...
...River sounds like an unlikely marriage: Mark Twain, giant of American literature, and Roger Miller, twangy country songwriter. Twain wrote penetratingly of the time when his nation was a frontier. Miller (Dang Me, King of the Road) provides at most a wistful echo of that era, a longing for the free and easy life now that there are few byways left to wander. But the musical, featuring 17 of Miller's down-home ditties, seems utterly natural, as full of unforced charm as Huck himself...
This insurgency, and those in Cambodia, Angola and Nicaragua, pointed to a new form of containment, a kind of ex post facto containment: harassment of Soviet expansionism at the limits of empire. There is an echo here of the old 1950s right-wing idea of "rolling back" Communism. But with a difference. This is not the reckless--and toothless--call for reclaiming the core Soviet possessions in Eastern Europe, which the Soviets claim for self-defense and, more important, which they are prepared to use the most extreme means to retain. This is a challenge to the peripheral acquisitions...