Word: overview
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...outlined his personal philosophy. His The American Condition, a book he calls "particularly difficult to read," is a summary of politics, his magnum opus. First and foremost, he says, it is a work of social theory. No one is writing social theory anymore, he laments; no one has an overview, they're all bogged down in their narrow fields...
Goodwin's "overview" is not a bright one. There is none of the fresh radiance, none of the confident expectation he felt during the Kennedy administration. Everywhere he sees the systems on which American has depended failing. Everywhere he sees a refusal to recognize the failure, a refusal to replace dying ideologies with new ones...
JAMES HARNEY, an editor of Overview Latin America, says the El Salvadorean government "tries to cover up these embarrassing incidents as best it can." Regarding the March 27 massacre, Anne Nelson states that American church people doing relief work in El Salvador verify that "something" happened that day. However, she won't reveal their names and organization in order to protect them. Sister Jeanne Gallo also suspects something may have happened on the 27th. "The numbers may be exaggerated, but then again, you are dealing with illiterate peasants who often can't count," she says...
...stream of visitors who made Reagan's schedule seem chockablock with appointments. Said Hospital Spokesman Dr. Dennis O'Leary: "He likes visitors more than his doctors do." Baker, Deaver and Meese arrived together at 7:15 every morning and spent 15 or 20 minutes supplying a distilled overview of the day's business. Nancy Reagan arrived in time for lunch, and remained at the hospital until 9 at night, slipping in and out between meetings and medical tests. In all, the President received about two dozen well-wishers last week, including Daughter Maureen. Reagan will miss...
...Confederates. Thomas Keneally slides around discussions of institutional change while clinging to the basic currency of fiction--the individual. Though Keneally depicts many of the war's most studied battles, he resists the temptaion to offer an overview. He plants characters in the battle of Antietam, where America lost as many men in one day as it did during its whole engagement in Vietnam, but he describes the slaughter only from the perspectives of individual soldiers. While the authors of other recent, successful war novels, such as Shogun, Trinity, and War and Remembrance, use the biography of a central character...