Word: heydays
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...bandstands, the jazz musicians of Kansas City swung through it all. Absorbed, imperturbable, they played within a sort of bubble of purity: theirs were the only disinterested passions in town. Or so it seems in Robert Altman's new film, Kansas City, set in the 1930s heyday of "Boss" Tom Pendergast, when an extraordinary concentration of jazz talent flourished in the city (and a wide-eyed Altman was growing up there...
...like the grin of the Cheshire Cat--the cat's gone and only the grin is still here," says Anthony G. Oettinger '51, a member of the Committee on Non-Departmental Instruction. "It's a pale shadow compared to the heyday under [then-president James B. Conant...
...glowing hum of the television set calms momentarily, starting abruptly seconds later, this time heralding a tune as familiar as the Ed Sullivan Show's opening jingle must have been in its heyday...
...minimum-wage free lunch is a perfect example of the decadence of modern liberalism. In its heyday, liberalism didn't hide. The classic redistributionist programs of the New Deal and the Great Society--Social Security and Medicare--were open about the cost and about government's role: You pay the tax; government will deliver the goodies...
...might not like it, but remaking the Soviet empire is a bedrock issue for the communists' new coalition. It is central to Zyuganov's strategy of pulling in non-Marxist nationalists and anti-Western and pan-Slavic ideologues. This is not something completely new for communists. Even in the heyday of Soviet power, there were two tendencies in the leadership. The internationalist wing of the party put Marxist revolutionary goals above Soviet national interests. The opposing "statist" group--followers and admirers of Stalin--put Russia first. So do they...