Word: edmunds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...great architects of conservatism, like Edmund Burke, envisioned their political philosophy as a kind of intellectual cathedral, resting on solid principles but being modified and enriched by later craftsmen. "All government," wrote Burke, "indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter." Many of the modern Presidents who have been hailed by Reagan shared that view. Dwight Eisenhower had an uncanny instinct for outrunning events and using them, hence his proposal for an international agency to guide peaceful development of atomic energy ("atoms for peace") and a scheme to open...
...been to enrage consumers. Residents in 21 counties have staged electrical blackouts in protest, and at least 1 million people have signed petitions calling for a statewide rollback in rates. Last week more than 1,000 demonstrators converged in Sacramento for a "California tea party" and demanded that Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. declare a state of emergency. In Loomis, a crowd gathered in a school auditorium and chanted, 'We're mad as hell and we're not going to take it any more...
Thus was born the first clerihew, the brainchild of Edmund Clerihew Bentley (1875-1956). Bentley went on to write detective novels, including Trent's Last Case (1912), and to compose editorials for the Daily Telegraph. But his fame was ensured by those dotty four-line biographies that kept punctuating his otherwise respectable existence. He lived to see his middle name enshrined in the Oxford English Dictionary...
Director Constantin Costa-Gavras (Z, State of Siege) builds Missing around the arrival in Santia go of Herman's father Edmund (Jack Lemmon), who joins Horman's wife (Sissy Spacek) in a frustrating quest to find out what happened to his son (John Shea). Basing his narrative largely on Thomas Hauser's 1978 book, The Execution of Charles Horman (reissued in a new paperback as Missing), Costa-Gavras shows the pair running up against a phalanx of American diplomats who profess to be helping but who know all along that the Chilean military authorities have already murdered...
...under the Freedom of Information Act, which require some explanation. One, a cable from Davis to Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, is dated Oct. 4, 1973, and recounts neighbors' descriptions of Charles' arrest and an eyewitness's report of his detention by the military. Yet when Edmund Horman arrived in Santiago on Oct. 5, he was told by the U.S. Ambassador that his son was probably in hiding. Other documents raise similar puzzles...