Word: modernizations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...three members of the Tower Commission correctly realized that covert operations are not new to the this administration. Almost every modern president has initiated some secret action using an organization not responsible to Congress...
...rises early every weekday morning to tend to the spiritual needs of the parishioners of Christ Church in Maidstone, a small town in southeast England. She baptizes babies, conducts funerals, comforts the sick in their homes and in hospital beds, and leads her congregation in prayer in the small, modern brick church. But as a woman, she is forbidden to celebrate the rite of Holy Communion for her flock of 40 parishioners. That central act of worship can be performed only by male clerics in the Church of England, who occasionally neglect even to show up for services. Says Williams...
...meticulous detail. A neighbor, living in a cottage on farmland that once belonged to the estate, befriends the writer and later falls ill and dies; his carefully maintained garden declines into chaos. A large agricultural concern takes over the surrounding acreage for a while, introducing prefabricated buildings and modern equipment, and then fails; one of the workers hired for this enterprise murders his wife for her infidelity. A London radio personality and book reviewer, distantly related to Naipaul's reclusive landlord, commits suicide. The gardener, whose comings and goings helped the writer regulate his solitary days, is abruptly fired...
Regan has become the most reviled White House staff chief in modern times, utterly without support in Congress, the media and his own party. Yet the President clings to him even in the face of his wife's obvious distaste. Don Regan, so bumbling and insensitive in high profile, has reduced his visibility dramatically, a move that has at last become him in his ill-starred winter. / But it may be too late. Fair or unfair, there is a national perception that Regan has guided both the President and himself mindlessly toward humiliation. For the moment, he refuses to leave...
Iron and Silk is not so much a treatise on modern Chinese mores as a series of telling vignettes. When a clerical worker at the college committed suicide, her funeral could not be held or her family consoled until, four days later, local Communist Party officials announced that "her problems were personal and not political." Salzman killed a rat in his classroom, and his students merrily escorted him and his quarry to the local Rat Collection Office, where he was entitled to a 5 cents bounty. A young man teaching Salzman calligraphy was surprised when the American confided that...