Word: jessee
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Senator Jesse Helms, that noted paleo-conservative, has taken up the cudgels against the most distinguished and useful vehicle of patronage in American cultural life, the National Endowment for the Arts. Neoconservatives want to keep the NEA because they would like to run it. Paleos like Helms don't greatly...
In short, what the amendment proposes is a loony parody of cultural democracy in which everyone becomes his or her own Cato the Censor. Clearly, Jesse Helms has no doubt that the NEA must be punished if it strays from what he fancies to be the center line of American...
At another time and place the conversation might have been considered typical banter among co-workers. As they prepared to take off from Dallas last August, the crew of a Delta Air Lines 727 joked about subjects ranging from Marilyn Quayle's looks ("She looks like she's from Texas...
The U.S. has met with only limited success when it tried using more conventional forces to hit back at terrorists. When Jimmy Carter dispatched Marine helicopters to rescue the embassy hostages in 1980, the result was wreckage in the desert. Bombing runs over Lebanon in 1983 resulted in the capture...
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