Word: preferably
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sent her sashaying down Main Street, photographed the event and published the pictures across the top of Page One under the screaming pronouncement LOVE IS A MINI-SPLENDORED THING! For all this silliness, it had a down-home feel to it, and readers who stuck with it professed to prefer its casualness to the seriousness of the morning alternative. A sweet potato that looked just like Charles de Gaulle was news enough for them...
Most South Koreans remain unperturbed by President Chun's policies. With the economy still recovering from the worldwide recession, the growing middle class seems to prefer stability to the unrest that it fears would accompany a relaxation of political repression. Still, Chun is not considered personally popular, partly because many South Koreans remember the bloody riots that followed his rise to power in 1980. His efforts to exert greater control over the nation's industries failed, though he is given credit for reviving the economy and building South Korea's diplomatic ties, most notably with Third World...
...greatest accomplishment was to remind people that they could think for themselves, at a time in this century when humanity seemed to prefer taking marching orders. He steadfastly valued ideals over ideology. He tried to strike a correct socialist attitude toward Dickens, and could not quite pull it off: "His whole 'message' is one that looks at first glance like an enormous platitude: If men would behave decently the world would be decent." But the sentiment, he concluded, "is not such a platitude as it sounds." Indeed, for all the pessimism attributed to him posthumously, Orwell...
...course Fighting Irish fans prefer to remember the intervening year when Notre Dame broke USC's 23-game winning streak enroute to the National Championship. Eight times since 1926, the National Championship has been decided in a USC-Notre Dame game. To win this year's game. 27-6. Notre-Dame pulled a psychological trick out of the bag. The school colors are gold and blue, but the Irish showed up on the field dressed in green jerseys for only the third time in 20 years. The last time they wore green was the last time they beat...
...timid, ostensibly non-brutal culture, the need to channel human aggression has always proved somewhat of a problem. The macabre nature of Spain's bullfights revolts us, and even our own ancestral tradition of duelling gives us chills. Instead, we prefer something more in the vein of a game, where sportsmanship and fun--not victory and blood--are the central factors. The all-American solution to what we consider an un-American trait of violence has become football...