Word: expression
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Even inside the White House, there was uncertainty about when to announce the new scheme and how vigorously to push it. McFarlane urged a go-slow approach, but Reagan's political advisers wanted the President to express a large, fresh idea in his next defense policy speech. Thus the President unveiled Star Wars in a televised address on March 23. Reagan's science adviser, George Keyworth II, excluded from the loop until five days before the speech, now talks with relish about the bureaucracy's "surprise, if not shock, at this demonstration of top-down leadership...
...victory of a women but a victory or value that have been traditionally female nonaggression and interdependence, problem in all visionary feminist work that this one doesn't escape, is overestimating the adherence of today women to these historically held priorities. Morgan speaks of a "cross cultural opposition women express to war and our healthy skepticism of certain technological advances." This certainly true of the women who contributed to her book, but to put a women in this category is to neglect the Margaret Thatchers and Phyllis Schlaflys of the world who have, either by choice or necessity, adopted more...
WITH A DESCRIPTION of the British feminist nuclear movement at the Greenham Commons military base, Sebestyen touches upon a theme that pervades Sisterhood is Global. Much of the "world feminism" that Morgan has given expression to is directed toward overall societal reform. No single essay details the concern of women in a particular country to be solely in bettering their economic and political position. The book is not so much a clarion call for equal rights for women, but rather a blueprint for a myriad of social changes. In contribution after contribution, the activists express a need for greater attention...
...global movement of women that will have enormous impact through the end of the century," she evokes the hopes of women worldwide, but she also risks the exclusionary attitude that so plagues the male-dominated societies portrayed in her book. For as the anthology contributers so eloquently express, it is only when women and men work together in all spheres of life, and understand their common interests, that real equality and progress be found...
...would have hoped that Theroux would bring the descriptive skills he has demonstrated in books such as The Patagonia Express or The Great Railway Bazaar to this new work of fiction. Unfortunately, because of its insipid plots and shallow characters, Half Moon Street will likely not enjoy the same wide readership Theroux's previous books have...