Word: ghosts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Shunned Ghost...
...downed a pair of Libyan jets last August, two choruses sounded in counterpoint: "Hooray! We've finally put Viet Nam behind us!" and, from the other side of the stage, "Beware! The Gulf of Sidra may be another Gulf of Tonkin!" (thus the onstage, with clanking chains, the ghost of the 1964 naval skirmish off the coast of Viet Nam, which Lyndon Johnson used as a pretext to escalate American involvement there...
...ghost of John F. Kennedy '40 was raised once more this week with the reminder that he had secretly taped phone calls and meetings. Though it has been known for several years that the tapes exited, the Kennedy Library released a log revealing the people--100 public officials including Kennedy's two predecessors--and the topics--several domestic and foreign crisis--on the recordings...
...reader concerned only with plot, the yield is relatively low. The pastoral is an ancient tradition. Small schools for the young daughters of the leisure classes have had more literary attention, certainly, than their numbers have called for. Freeman has missed no gothic twists here--ghost sightings, illicit trysts, sensual foreigners, even secret abortions...
...GHOST STORY...