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...crisis of the left stems from the brutal fact that the idea of socialism is dead (its obituary is being written even in China and Russia) and the agenda of social democracy is exhausted. In Britain, Israel and the U.S., the social-democratic party has completed its historic and heroic task of creating the structure of the modern welfare state. Its agenda enacted, the party has run out of energy and ideas. Consequently, the party of the right, with its claim on the nationalist idea and all its attendant emotional and political power, has been handed the game almost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Why The Left Keeps Losing | 12/5/1988 | See Source »

...myth grew up around the Cowboys that dubbed them America's Team, a symbol for all that was good and heroic about the nation...

Author: By Joseph R. Palmore, | Title: America's Team Illusion Is Gone | 12/1/1988 | See Source »

Harvard scored four goals in the first period, two in the second and four in the third. For her heroic efforts in the face of the terrible onslaught, B.C. goalie Kerri Tiernan should have been given a purple heart...

Author: By Mark Brazaitis, | Title: These Eagles Simply Could Not Fly | 11/29/1988 | See Source »

...Nelligan, the character comes exuberantly alive. Vitality and beauty are common enough in star turns; so is warmth, although Nelligan, whose technical gifts are extraordinary, has never before shown it to this degree on the U.S. stage, and only once on film, in her 1985 performance as a heroic Greek mother in Eleni...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Glamour in A Housecoat SPOILS OF WAR | 11/28/1988 | See Source »

Fallon makes a dramatic debut to political stardom when a Contra leader he welcomes to Washington is assassinated on the podium while the two embrace. Fallon is shot, but struggles to the podium to make a heroic speech urging Americans to support the Contra cause in honor of the leader who lies dead beside...

Author: By Aline Brosh, | Title: The Black Sheep of the Family | 11/5/1988 | See Source »

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