Word: historyes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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A. That is a painful matter. I always have this map with me. ((He shows map with U.S. bases encircling the Soviet Union.)) This is the way the U.S. has surrounded the Soviet Union; more than half a million American troops and aircraft are deployed there. The system was shaped...
Lyndon Baines Johnson may have been larger than life, but since his death 16 years ago, he has been getting bigger. The growth spurt is due largely to the diligence of Robert A. Caro, the biographer and political historian who has made L.B.J.'s saga into an obsession and virtually...
After this amicable standoff, and graduation, the friends part company. Later, though, the narrator finds himself thinking more and more about Saul's fascination with so-called primitive people. He wonders, in particular, about evidence that the besieged Machiguengas, dispersed into small groups by enemies and harsh conditions, retain their...
Many of the new migrants are young, middle-class families from Los Angeles and Orange County. According to University of Southern California geographer Thomas Jablonsky, their flight represents the first net "out migration" of this trendsetting group in the state's history. They are relatively skilled and prosperous, and mobile...
The press's fixation on race nettles Hall even more. Though he takes pride in giving exposure to many black performers ("I have a commitment to correcting the wrongs of TV history"), Hall insists he is doing a show for everybody, black and white. "I'm out to bring the...