Word: echoing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Moreover, opponents are threatening a prolonged talkathon that could drag on into next year's presidential primary season. If so, demands would rise that a vote be put off until after the elections. Altogether, it was an unhappy week for SALT backers, who could echo King Pyrrhus:"Another such victory and I shall be ruined...
...riptides generated by slavery, Pierce desperately sought the mushy middle ground. He sat there while Kansas was torn apart in bloody raids Pierce was judged almost irrelevant to his times, a national feeling that has a faint but disturbing echo in Jimmy Carter's first three years. Nathaniel Hawthorne unwittingly (or maybe not) devastated his old friend in a letter "Frank, I pity you," Hawthorne wrote, the worst thought one can have about an active politician...
...ponder why Carter's new maturity and depth did not arrive until his standing in the national opinion polls fell into the basement and his own warm political body was threatened. In that is an echo of the modern curse of personality politics. But that is less important if through some alchemy of these past weeks Jimmy Carter has joined the presidential club, likes it in there and wants to stay there badly enough to change himself. We all benefit...
...attitude of enthusiasm, anticipation and optimism--"and, you can say, reckless abandon," adds sophomore winger Dave Burke--have swept aside memories of three season of disappointment, disenchantment and, last year, disaster. The difference, compared to last year, says Cleary, "is like night and day." His players echo that sentiment. Dave Burke: "Most of the trouble is behind us--we're totally gung-ho." Newly elected co-captain (along with goalie John Hynes) Graham Carter: "The end of one era is going out--the beginning of a new era is in." Sophomore goalie Wade Lau: "This group of kids...
...young, modern Jew, acutely aware of the horror of the Holocaust yet eager to spare his writing any Jewish self-pity. His stories are icy, even mean, much to his parents' chagrin. Nathan's battle with his family over a story they deem insulting to Jews must echo a similar fight Roth himself waged with his relatives over Portnoy's Complaint...