Word: pastes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Thus, even as events offer great promise, they simultaneously remind us of a past we would rather overlook. The moments of shocking history--which must be confronted--simply prove again the intractable nature of opposing ideologies and economic systems...
...sidelines watching, with our hands tied by uncertainty and our vision lacking the sharply focused lens provided by the past, as momentous events burst one by one around us. Inevitably, we ask, how could it be? What will happen now? Is there cause for fear...
WITH the rest of the world we learn rapidly that the difficulties remaining for the Germans and Europeans are vast. For reasons of superpower and continental security, reunification remains out of the question. The Western powers, hearing the echoes of the past--two world wars and inexpressible human horror--look to the recreation of a unified Germany in central Europe with unvoiced misgiving...
...past we see again and again. This is not to deny that there is cause for great celebration and great joy for millions in Europe and their compatriots worldwide. There is. And there is great hope in Gorbachev's words for peaceful and calm change toward true self-government, toward social welfare and peace. But the reminder provided also by these great changes is how intractable, irrational and powerful the undercurrents of the old problems are, even as they take new form...
...NCAA MVP Ted Donato is concerned, the past it past. Leave all comparisons to last year at the door...