Word: familiarizes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...right governs, the left thinks,' says a familiar French dictum. No longer. A vigorous group of right-wing thinkers is now challenging the left's longstanding intellectual hegemony, proclaiming ominous theories on race, genetics and inequality rarely heard since the dark days of the Third Reich. The rise of this bold "New Right" has ignited the liveliest political debate in France since the advent of the New Philosophers, a group of disillusioned leftists who launched a blistering attack on Marxist dogma two years...
...that the Church of England forsook the Latin liturgy and began worshiping in the king's English. By the church's good fortune, Archbishop Thomas Cranmer edited the original Book of Common Prayer with such felicity that it has stood for centuries as a literary masterpiece. Its familiar phrases strike to the Anglican mind and heart and indeed can stir anyone who loves God or great language: "Almighty and most merciful Father . . . We have followed too much the devices and desires of our own hearts. We have offended against thy holy laws. We have left undone those things...
Fireworks had been expected in the Senate's SALT II hearings as they shifted last week from the generally sympathetic Foreign Relations Committee to the Armed Services Committee. Not only is the Armed Services panel more familiar with the weaponry covered by SALT, but also a number of committee members have been outspoken critics of the accord. Yet the treaty had smooth sailing last week, except for occasional heated exchanges sparked by Senator Henry ("Scoop") Jackson, the powerful Democrat from the state of Washington, who is a leading SALT...
...they have a moral one. Thus, in Carter's reign, there has developed a rather strange and selective nostalgia for the wheeler-dealer manipulations of Lyndon Johnson, and even, here and there, for the darkling touch of Richard Nixon. But when Americans thought that they detected something of that familiar Milhousian style in the Carter loyalty tests and Cabinet firings, they were not so sure that that was what they wanted after all. Effective leadership often requires a subtle exercise of power that Carter and his Georgians have had difficulty mastering...
...from the Kremlin," "Monet at Giverny"). Named director of the Met in May 1978, de Montebello plans to downplay the role of special events and make the museum's treasures more routinely accessible. Says he: "I want people to get used to the idea of dropping in to see familiar objects they love...