Word: essays
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...election that could shape the waning years of this century. -- An interview with Dukakis: "Am I a liberal in the tradition of Roosevelt, Truman and Kennedy? Yes, I am." -- A TIME poll points to the Democrats' lost opportunities. -- Diplomacy now that the cold war is over -- a campaign Essay...
...successor as Rockefeller Professor, John. M. Rosenfield, called Loehr's 1953 essay on Chinese vases "one of the most important single scholarly contributions to Asian...
...commanding lead, the Duke needs a big break -- plus more of the populist passion he showed last week. -- Jesse Jackson is back on the stump for the Democrats -- and for himself. -- Nancy Reagan returns some designer dresses. -- Should the U. S. double the cigarette tax? A campaign Essay on health care...
...decades, Sontag has been resolving to devote all her time to fiction -- and failing. "Essay writing is part of an addiction that I'm trying to kick. My last essay is like my last cigarette." She quit smoking two years ago, but there's still one more essay she plans to turn out, this one about intellectuals and Communism, taking as its point of departure the disillusioning trip that the writer Andre Gide made to the Soviet Union in 1936. And then there's a short book on Japan. And then . . . Well, at least the tube won't be distracting...
Once again, a Democrat from Massachusetts is challenging a Republican Vice President for the White House. But beyond the surface similarities lie vast differences. -- Bush widens the likability gap with Dukakis. -- Nancy Reagan promised to stop borrowing designer dresses -- but has she? -- Helping the homeless -- a campaign essay. See Nation...