Word: latters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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TIME AND time again, Cuomo touches on the key issues of latter-day liberalism--busing, quotas, the death penalty, race relations, labor relations--only to leave the reader grasping for straws. Recounting a February 21, 1981 speech to a Glen Oaks Jewish group, Cuomo writes...
...found unimaginable and a range of experience which persuaded me that the world in which I had grown up, suburban Boston, was very limited indeed. Many coming from outside the Northeast were without any "Eastern" pretensions. Understanding the Harvard admissions process only dimly. I assumed that each of these latter individuals must be truly brilliant...
Among the five Republican stars, Kassebaum, O'Connor and Armstrong came closest to leading conventional homemakers' lives during the 1950s and '60s. Heckler and Dole have always held paying jobs, the former member of Congress from 1967 until last year, the latter a fast- track Washington bureaucrat under every President since Kennedy. The résumé's of all the women overlap in several places. All but Heckler grew up well-to-do in the South or West; all but Armstrong have postgraduate degrees. Dole was a Democrat in the 1960s; Armstrong campaigned for Harry...
...moments come when Kandell describes the frontier's conflicts and the people who fight them. As a chronicler of the new frontier he varies between the sociological reasoning of a Frederick Jackson Turner and the adventure-packed storytelling of Louis L'Amour. He does a better job at the latter. While he makes many interesting observations about the changes the settlement of the frontier will have for South America, the book remains very much a fun read, highly suitable for beach-towel browsing. In what current novel can you meet Robert Suarez, the "Cocaine King of the World," head...
...Gallery, "The Pre-Raphaelites," has been a roaring popular success. In attendance it has been surpassed at the Tate only by exhibitions of John Constable and Salvador Dali-fittingly, since it rivals the intense Englishness of the former while competing with the fulsome, more-than-photographic detail of the latter. The time is long past when hard-core modernists, secure in their belief that nearly everything England produced between the death of Turner and the arrival of Roger Fry was either hopelessly sentimental or irredeemably quaint, assigned the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood to the dustbin of history. Presumably it will...