Word: edmunds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have to dismantle almost 2,500 submarine-based warheads, while the Soviets could add to their fleet. Reagan's speech, with its stated focus on land-based warheads, put some Americans in the awkward position of doubting the sincerity of their own leader. Said former Secretary of State Edmund Muskie: "What troubles me about the program is that it may be a secret agenda for sidetracking disarmament...
...demiurge behind this outpouring of books is Critic Edmund Wilson, who died ten years too early to see it occur. During much of his long career, Wilson lobbied in print and in private for "the possibility of bringing out in a complete and compact form the principal American classics." He particularly admired the French Pléiade editions and wanted the work of U.S. authors similarly collected and displayed "in beautifully produced and admirably printed thin-paper volumes, ranging from 800 to 1,500 pages...
...solemnly official ring. Land of the Free, written to accompany a series of Dust Bowl photographs, purported to record the unspoken questionings of the People; America Was Promises urged the same People to demand their rights ("Listen! Brothers! . . ./ Companions of leaves: of the sun"). These symphonic musings inspired Edmund Wilson to malicious parody: "And the questions and/ Questions/ questioning What am I? O/ What shall I/ remember? . . ./ Till the hearer cried:/ 'If only MacLeish could remember if only could...
...somehow lost in this pop analysis was the Burkean conservative, the breed who valued the preservation of the State above all goals. The ideological descendants of 18th-century British politician Edmund Burke claim exclusive control of the cherished title "conservative," dismissing Ronald Reagan as a "Manchester liberal" who is "marching under borrowed banners...
...Edmund A. Bojarski Rusk, Texas...