Word: inner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Autobiographies by writers tend to be awkward combinations of exquisite craft at storytelling and desiccated scarcity of incident. The writer's trade is by nature solitary, his customary posture bemused detachment, the key events in his inner life involved with the murky business of shaping a sensibility. In the American tradition, moreover, serious writers rarely enter politics or play more than a peripheral role in celebrity culture...
...postwar suburbs, which sucked millions of families out of the cities, downtowns quickly lost their old pizazz. Then the redevelopment binge of the '50s and '60s came disastrously close to indulging the American antiurban instinct to the point of no return. Political pressure to build new housing for the inner-city poor was intense. Urban renewal, a well-intended and wrongheaded federal mission, in those days meant tearing down quirky, densely interwoven neighborhoods of 19th and early 20th century low-rise buildings and putting up expensive, charmless clots of high-rises. Or, even worse, leaving empty tracts. (The resistance...
...Zhao must proceed cautiously; conservative forces lurk behind the scenes, ready to criticize any failing innovations. While most hardliners were booted out of the Central Committee in this Congress, there are three new leaders in the party's inner circle who are steeped in Soviet training and poised to slow the reforms. Based on the negative effects capitalist initiatives have had on China recently, conservatives already have sufficient gripes...
...young Army major selected for a fellowship to the Nixon White House in 1972, Colin Powell came to the attention of two emerging bureaucratic stars: Caspar Weinberger and Frank Carlucci, director and deputy director of the Office of Management and Budget. Powell was recruited into their inner circle, and has risen with his bosses ever since. Last week Lieut. General Powell, 50, took another large step upward, succeeding Carlucci to become Ronald Reagan's sixth National Security Adviser...
Salerno topped the ticket in South Boston. Many attribute her success in the inner-city to her housing policy...