Word: movingness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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By the time Buckley founded the National Review in 1955, he had abandoned ambitions to be a political philosopher. The long scholarly pull did not suit his polemical talents and gregarious nature. His friend Literary Critic Hugh Kenner put the matter concisely when he said that Buckley "was simply moving...
The innate caution of Dukakis' campaign style sometimes leaves aides in the peculiar role of providing both the specificity and the passion that the candidate so assiduously avoids. Chris Edley, for example, talks animatedly about Dukakis' moving immediately after the election to forge a "vigorous consensus on a multi-year...
Gorbachev was moving to consolidate support before a crucial Communist Party conference that is to be held in two months. TASS reported last week that he had met party leaders from the Soviet Union's 15 republics over the previous two weeks. He was trying to sell unsettling political reforms...
By moving on Ligachev, Gorbachev seemed to be strengthening his credentials as the evenhanded middleman in the argument over reform. Six months ago, he deposed the foremost proponent of a faster pace, Boris Yeltsin, one of his closest allies. After Yeltsin complained loudly at a meeting of the Central Committee...
The Democrats' disciplined, self- contained candidate surges halfway to the nomination and dims chances of a Jackson upset. But can the Duke pull together the party' s disparate elements? -- As President, Dukakis would be decisive and fast- moving on the domestic front. -- The candidate and his wife Kitty are a...