Word: longer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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THERE are very few people in the world who know as much as J. William Fulbright about United States foreign policy. The outspoken Arkansas Democrat served in the Senate from 1945 to 1974, holding the chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee for his last 16 years, longer than any other senator in history. He also developed the educational exchange program that bears his name and, as a freshman member of the House, sponsored a war-time resolution that supported America's entrance into the United Nations...
...Sammler's Planet (1970) and The Dean's December (1982), and his new heroine's thoughts will not heal those old wounds: "These people came up from the tropical slums to outsmart New York, and with all the rules crumbling here as elsewhere, so that nobody could any longer be clear in his mind about anything, they could do it." But Clara is here ruminating in anger and the natural resentment of a victim. In calmer moods, she can recall listening to Teddy Regler talk about the decline of civilization and privately disagreeing: "I don't actually take much stock...
...this Mather senior led me and many others in the House to avoid direct reference to the case in public forums. This silence should not be construed in any way as acquiescence to the peculiar deception which has been perpetrated on the Harvard community. And I can no longer maintain that silence...
Defending his tactics, King writes "It seeks so to dramatize the issue that it can no longer be ignored. My citing the creation of tension as part of the work of the nonviolent-register may sound rather shocking. But I must confess that I am not afraid of the word 'tension...
Doug Henwood, publisher of the Left Business Observer,says "LBOs sort of made economic sense in the early '70s and '80s when they were small [transactions]." But "they no longer make sense because I don't see how we can finance the debt," he adds...