Word: good
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...what they do not possess -- especially not the Caprichos and the Disasters of War -- is the sense of intellectual decorum and poise that the well-born, French-reading illuminati of Madrid preferred the discourse of images to have. Goya was not good at optimistic allegory. His large painting of the adoption of the liberal constitution of 1812 -- the constitution as a maiden in white presented by Father Time while pretty Clio, the muse of history, takes notes -- is one of his few real pictorial failures...
...Look" campaign will feature forums, TV spots and award plaques to "role models" like the two hotel maids who found a shoe box containing $65,000 in a room and turned it in. Says Magruder: "It could have been different in Watergate if there had been continuing emphasis on good values...
...Soviets have a vested interest in making good on the antique IOUs. In recent times, U.S. banks have loaned money to the Soviets only for short periods. But the Soviets hope that a repayment of the old debt may encourage some U.S. banks to extend longer-term loans, as European and Japanese financial institutions have done over the past five years to the tune of $11 billion...
...wonder unduly at arbitrary choices of personal traits and adventures assigned by the author. Burgess, as always, throws in bits of the many languages he knows, mostly untranslated. But where the invented Russian- English slang in Clockwork Orange had a brilliant sting to it (horrorshow from horosho, meaning good, and lewdies from lyudi, people), the phrases here in Russian and Latin appear, after a dash to the dictionary, to be quite ordinary, not the keys to unsuspected puzzles...
Kind words. Gentle words. Nothing flashy or particularly memorable. Just good, plain talk from the heart. And a departure: if George Bush signaled anything by proclaiming a "new breeze," it was a new altruism, a move away from the Reagan era's tacit approval of selfishness, an end to the glorification of greed. "Use power to help people," said the 41st President. "We are not the sum of our possessions . . . We cannot hope only to leave our children a bigger car, a bigger bank account. We must hope to give them a sense of what it means...