Word: grandness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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From then it was only a matter of time before Reagan would be face to face with Lenin's legacy. He and Nancy entered the Kremlin on a red carpet that led up a grand staircase toward St. George's Hall. Reagan looked up and the whole world seemed filled by the huge and powerful painting of Lenin addressing the Communist Youth League in 1920. Reagan never missed a step. "I sort of expected him to be there," Reagan says. "I knew I was going to see a lot of Lenin...
Most of the University's professors do not have the opportunity to live in the traditional yellow Sparks House or Bok's mansion on Elmwood Ave. The select few professors who become house masters also inhabit grand houses designed for entertaining, but the remainder must face the perils of the Cambridge housing market...
...truth, the professor argues, is the guiding principle behind Habermas' theory of rationality. And thus Habermas' critiques of the philosphers of modernity that preceeded him are all part of a grand strategy for establishing himself as a legend, rather like Hegel did in an earlier century...
...remembered long after he leaves office, he stooped to rhetorical depths not seen since the onset of the cold war, decrying the U.S.S.R. as the "focus of evil in the modern world . . . an evil empire." So what was the most conservative President of the modern age doing in the Grand Kremlin Palace, amid the zinc columns and gilt bronze chandeliers of the St. George Hall, smiling at the ruler of the "evil empire...
...wonder it is irresistible. Equipment to do it is relatively cheap. You can hone your skills on a grand backyard ramp or in a special park, but a downtown sidewalk will do just as nicely. The action is fast, furious and decidedly funky. Uniforms are not required, but style is vital, and the available styles are great. You can talk about it in resonant slang whose references to half pipes and acid drops, crackin' Ollies and catchin' air can be as arcane as a Rosicrucian oath. You can do it in the country or city, by a beach or across...