Word: neustadter
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...sunny market square in Wiener Neustadt, 30 miles south of Vienna, is a reassuring vision of small-town tranquillity. Leathery-faced farmers and their wives sell vegetables and wurst from stalls. The local citizenry--some of the men dressed in lederhosen, the women in dirndls--greet one another with elaborate courtesy, a scene that evokes the continuity of old traditions. In fact, the town square's ancient buildings were ruins 41 years ago, flattened by Allied bombing, and were later lovingly reconstructed...
Harvard was Shangri-la...The steets and classrooms were crowded with people who had just gotten off the Washington-Boston Shuttle. Many had been a part of the Camelot entourage: Richard Neustadt, John Kenneth Galbraith...It did not take long before I was thoroughly infected with the desire to find a place in the world at the other end of the shuttle...
...while Neustadt made it clear he felt Reagan is heading in the wrong direction on Nicaragua, the professor praised the president's "great political instinct on when you have to cut losses...
...Nicaragua, said Neustadt, "It may be playing out China again, but it also may be playing out Cuba again...
...Neustadt described Reagan's commitments as strengthening defense, lowering taxes and getting rid of the social programs of the Great Society...