Word: phrase
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Unfortunately, the topic is unwieldy: it ranges from Dan Quayle to single mothers; from crack houses to race. In a phrase, I am describing the decline of America. I am not grappling with an amorphous moral problem or some spiritual misgivings. The problem is more practical than that...
...supreme purveyors of popular song, here assembles 24 tunes associated with, and made popular by, Sinatra, ory days: the big-band beginnings, the series of alternately bleak ) and swinging LPs like In the Wee Small Hours and A Swingin' Affair -- concept albums before anyone had cooked up the phrase -- that carried Sinatra triumphantly through the 1950s to the pinnacle of his craft. Bennett, at this time, was enjoying significant success on his own, and though his celebrity missed the mythic dimension of Sinatra's, he did not lack for proper respect. Sinatra often singled him out for special praise...
Fighting Evil: Baird Professor of History RICHARD E. PIPES, who coined the phrase "evil empire," testified as an "official expert" at a trial to outlaw the Russian Communist Party...
Fighting Evil: Baird Professor of History RICHARD E. PIPES, who coined the phrase "evil empire," testified as an "official expert" at a trial to outlaw the Russian Communist Party...
Compared with the Pentagon's gargantuan overall budget, that hardly amounts to a dime's worth of difference. Neither candidate devotes much public attention to military issues; neither has been heard to utter the phrase "peace dividend" in campaign speeches. And with good reason. In this recession-blighted election year, cutting troop levels and slashing Pentagon budgets can mean higher unemployment. The formerly onerous burden of military spending now looks to presidential -- and congressional -- aspirants very much like a jobs-and-votes program. Clinton hews closely to the Administration line on defense for other reasons as well: to pre-empt...