Word: edwardes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cases in point. Before the Reagan Administration offered a new medium- range nuclear missile proposal to the Soviet Union in 1986, the White House sent retired General Edward Rowny to clear it with Tokyo. The Japanese were horrified by a provision that would have left some Soviet SS-20 missiles in Asia within striking distance of Japan. When Rowny reported back to Washington, Tokyo's objections helped kill the plan. The Asian missiles will be dismantled under the intermediate-range nuclear forces treaty signed by Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev last December...
EXECUTIVE EDITORS: Edward L. Jamieson, Ronald Kriss...
...residents banded together to keep out a drop-in center for the emotionally disturbed. The acronym stands for "not in my backyard," and it symbolizes a perverse form of antisocial activism. "Everybody says, 'Take care of the homeless, take care of the boarder babies,' " says New York City Mayor Edward Koch. "But when you need a facility, they say, 'Not in my backyard...
Written by Edward Albee...
...BEFORE Edward Albee wrote that famous sexual shouting match, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, before he was too old to be an Angry Young Play-wright, he wrote two one-act attacks on convention, complacency and middle-class values. Thirty years later, The American Dream and The Zoo Story have lost some of their relevance--and thus some of their power to disturb the complacent viewer. But Albee's disarming absurdity and brutal frankness remain, and thanks to a talented Harvard/Radcliffe Summer Theater company, those qualities can still make audiences squirm in their seats...