Word: heydays
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...next president should turn to the heyday of the American space program--the 1960's and Apollo--for inspiration. Then, NASA had a sense of mission--to put an astronaut on the moon--and a game plan on how to reach its goal. Technologies developed for the Apollo program benefitted the general populace in the form of micro-chips and high-tech insulators. Apollo became synonymous with American can-do ideology: "If we can put a man on the moon, we can do anything...
...speech at the Republican National Convention, Bush stated that he does not "hate" government and talked about working for a "kinder, gentler" nation. And, most significantly, Bush has proposed programs that Reagan would have sent to the garbage bin during both his successful campaigns and during his Administration's heyday...
...1930s were the heyday for the nation's Black colleges. In the midst of a society commited to segregation, and convinced of the inferiority of Blacks, colleges like Lincoln and Howard stood out as a kind of Athens for the Black intelligentsia...
Another recent elaboration in the press of the conventional wisdom puts it this way: "In the heyday of Leonid Brezhnev, the Soviet Union tried hard to promote Communism in the Third World . . . Now, under what might be called the Gorbachev Doctrine, the Kremlin has adopted a more cautious stance, backing away from confrontation." Why? Because "the Kremlin has been disappointed by the inability of Third World Marxists to impose stable Communist systems on underdeveloped societies...
...ones in the cast -- Carter, Ken Page and Armelia McQueen -- are just as fleshily beguiling as before. They jiggle and strut with weighty grace unseen since the heyday of Jackie Gleason. The skinny ones -- Andre De Shields and Charlaine Woodard -- stomp and slither like sticks turning into snakes. The years have changed nothing except to add emotional texture. McQueen is still cute, but now conveys heartache beneath. De Shields has ripened from Superfly sleekness into a leading man's virility. The biggest change is in Carter, whose widely publicized battles with weight, cocaine and star-size ego have enriched...