Word: emphasisation
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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John Wolbach is one of the few persons who has a key to its dome. He has been in charge of the Great Refractor during the last 15 years, during which the Tower, the dome and the telescope itself have decayed rapidly. Wolbach, distressed, would like to restore the Tower...
All in all, the excerpt reads like a political memoir, with all the characteristic flaws of that genre: first-person approach, great emphasis on the writer's own role, slightly wooden style, exaggeration of the bits of history the writer happens to know about first-hand. And even if a...
President Ford moved swiftly to pledge his continued faith in the beleaguered Secretary. After receiving a phone call from campaign headquarters, Morton backtracked and declared that Kissinger was "an asset, not a liability" in the President's effort to win the nomination. Speaking in Wisconsin, Ford declared: "I would...
Fleeing Whites. Thus Carter is against federal policies that would require the building of public and other federally subsidized housing on sites deliberately chosen to desegregate neighborhoods. With different language and emphasis, both Morris Udall and Henry Jackson have expressed reservations about too vigorous a policy of placing low-rent...
Hua has plenty of domestic problems to solve. One, certainly, is the danger of a recurrence of the T'ien An Men protests. That could easily happen if the radicals, who control China's press, continue to attack the reputation of Chou Enlai. Already there have been derogatory...