Word: happier
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Kundera's people face a shared dilemma. Should they try to remember, when the memories of happier times only mock the bleak, estranged present? Would it not be more sensible to shrug off the past, to laugh it away? No simple answers emerge...
...election eve, calling on all his skill in the medium he uses best, Reagan delivered a superbly moving half-hour TV speech. He called a roll of patriotic heroes from John Wayne to the three astronauts killed in a launch-pad accident, asked the voters "Are you happier today than when Mr. Carter became President?" and said, in relation to the U.S. role in the world, "at last the sleeping giant stirs and is filled with resolve-a resolve that we will win together our struggle for world peace." It was the kind of speech hardly another living politician would...
...clear that you would not be pushed around, and they would know what to expect. They would know what our policy is. They do not want to accidentally make a move that would bring them into a confrontation they don't want. I believe that they would be happier with someone-even though it was someone who is firmer, someone who opposed some of the things they did-who let them know what they were dealing with. And this would be my approach...
...remember a happier time when there was a tradition that the President of the U.S. never left our shores, but I don't say that you could do that today. Still, the first job is to let them see the course we were going to follow domestically, getting hold of our economy, straightening out our energy problems. And the fact that we have the will and determination to add to our defensive stature...
...contract originally ratified by the union in a close vote called for wage increases averaging nearly $1000. Senior workers, who received comparatively large longevity bonuses, were happier with the pact than the city's younger workers...