Word: electable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Students met yesterday with several newly elected Congressmen at informal gatherings, hosted by five of the Houses, to discuss topics ranging from President-elect Reagan's selection of cabinet members to the secrets of winning an election...
...DESIRE FOR NOSTALGIA is unquenchable: President-elect Ronald Reagan this week announced the first eight nominees for his cabinet, and they resemble quite closely their predecessors in the first 190 years of the Republic--white, male and Harvard-educated...
...Tenth-graders can handle Aristotle," insists Robert Squires, president-elect of the National Council of Teachers of English. Indeed, whether or not Aristotle is mentioned by name, most high school discussions of Julius Caesar, Othello and other tragedies build on the characteristics of tragedy originally set out in a few pages of the Poetics. Such fundamental questions as "Is Brutus or Caesar the hero of the play?" and "Why would an honorable man like Brutus join in the conspiracy against Caesar?" are good Aristote lian questions. Nor is Machiavelli unfathomable in an age well versed in political manipulation. Merely asking...
...William F. Buckley Jr. threw a splashy black-tie party for 650 of his friends at New York City's Plaza Hotel last week to mark the 25th anniversary of his conservative biweekly National Review, the event was marred by one disappointing absence: the guest of honor, President-elect Ronald Reagan, who was in Southern California trying to pick a Cabinet. "Reagan had no memory of the dinner," explained Buckley. "He was absolutely crestfallen...
Editor Winter says he will scrutinize the President-elect's actions for any signs of faltering ideological resolve...