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...former President Jimmy Carter's briefing papers for his October 1980 debate with then Candidate Ronald Reagan wind up in the Reagan camp? The mystery titillated Washington last summer. "Debategate" entered the lexicon, and the inevitable congressional investigation began. The President dismissed the flap as "much ado about nothing...
This enormous late work casts its ghostly and turbulent shadow over the whole gallery where other Titians, Veroneses and Moronis hang. Its subject is probably the most repulsive in the classical lexicon: the implacably vain Apollo has beaten the satyr Marsyas in a music contest judged by the nine Muses; now he collects his forfeit, which is to skin Marsyas alive. Renaissance humanists turned this myth into a fable of reason triumphing over darker instincts, and it was in that sense that Titian meant to paint...
Four decades of ups and downs, seen through a special lexicon...
...words are little more than political science jargon; many have become household terms. Together, they offer a surprisingly complete record of the ups and downs that have marked U.S.-Soviet relations in the 38 years since the two countries emerged as superpowers. The main entries in the U.S.-Soviet lexicon...
...floor of the House and declared: "I only have three words to say: Lebanon-Reagan's Viet Nam." He then sat down. He was sure he had said enough. And in a way he had. Viet Nam is the ultimate buzz word in the American political lexicon, a form of telegraphic speech so laden with ominous meaning that it is assumed to speak volumes. Gibbons' declaration was as revealing as it was brief. For weeks Viet Nam has haunted the debate over Lebanon. But it was not until after the bombing of the Marine barracks that the full...