Word: meannesses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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BEETHOVEN: SYMPHONY NO. 9 (EMI). Lean and mean on original instruments, the mighty Ninth, brilliantly conducted by Roger Norrington...
...front-running candidates pay fealty to the sanctity of Social Security and ardently embrace much of what the Gray Lobby advocates. Does this mean that AARP and the other groups will not unite behind a single candidate and that their impact may be somewhat diffused? Probably. But that in itself is a victory. It shows that their energetic new force has already helped shape the 1988 political agenda, and no doubt will continue...
...many remember when Goldwyn and his competitor Jack Warner co-produced the following wonderful gaffe? At a postwar banquet for Britain's war hero Field Marshal Montgomery, Goldwyn rose and proposed a toast to "Marshall Field Montgomery." After a stunned silence, Warner corrected him, "Montgomery Ward, you mean...
Also misleading. In most of his views, Gorbachev is a thoroughly Soviet, obdurately Communist figure. When he speaks of "democracy," as he incessantly does, he does not mean anything Thomas Jefferson would have recognized; he promotes freer discussion within the Communist Party only as a substitute for the political opposition he makes clear he will not tolerate. If he voices criticism of Soviet society, it is because that system has in his view strayed from the ideals of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, the founder of the Soviet state and Gorbachev's idol. And though he argues frequently for a new relationship...
...number of occasions he used God's name," the President said. "One of our Russian experts explained to me that God is a figure of speech over there, and when they invoke God's name they use it with a small g. It does not mean what some may think...