Word: idylle
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Mugabe's postrevolution idyll is clearly over. He will have to convince impatient Zimbabweans that the real struggle has just begun if he is to keep the country moving on a steady, moderate course.
But a lot of Americans have been left out. Some who tried to start out in the '70s began to suspect that they were operating under some vast cultural misunderstanding. In a way, they were. Owning a house-a home, "the most lyrical of American symbols," Max Lerner once...
In the gently rolling land of Adair County, which helped nurture the great agriculturists of the Wallace family (Henry A. was Secretary of Agriculture for F.D.R.), some of the farmers already have had three cuttings of hay, and they may get a fourth. Two cuttings used to be considered profligate...
Does the important business of Government get done during this idyll? So far, apparently. Reagan seemed generally on top of things at last Thursday's bill-signing press conference, that, largely because of an eerie mist that swirled about the ranch, was suffused with an air of cozy cordiality...
"Francis walked by the railings of Green Park, not taking a taxi, still practising the frugality he had developed after his failure to appropriate the dressmaker's money. It wasn't important that the idyll changed again; what mattered was he had no friend. He'd gone...