Word: prided
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...visible and unreachable, creating a public presence so pleasantly familiar that it dismisses normal scrutiny; people like to have him around. But people vote for facts as well as feelings. There is nothing abstract about the appeal of lower personal taxes, lower inflation, lower interest rates; of greater national pride; of relative peace in our time. If the majority has chosen current prosperity over a deficit's shadow, how mysterious is that...
...than anyone could have guessed even in 1980, or rewarding his engaging personality, attractive though it obviously is. Above all they were expressing satisfaction with what has become a rarity in American politics: what seems to be a successful presidency, in terms of economic growth and national strength and pride, especially in contrast to the turbulent terms that preceded it. Said Edward Reilly, a Boston-based pollster who conducted national research for Mondale: "The status quo with Reagan was preferable to the risk of going back to Carter-Mondale. There was no compelling reason to leave Reagan." The very notion...
...Patriotism and Personality. An incumbent running at a time of low inflation, rising incomes and employment, and absence of wrenching foreign crises would have been difficult to defeat no matter what. When, in addition, the incumbent happened to be a master television performer adept at stirring feelings of patriotic pride, matched against an often plodding campaigner deeply wounded by a bitter primary fight in his own party-well, the ingredients for a landslide were present from the start...
...slow visibly until the end of the campaign, and even now the significance of that slow down is debatable. The Soviets, seemingly immobilized by yet another change in Kremlin leadership, did not provoke any major incidents. And the glorious Olympics worked for Reagan: it intensified na tional pride and gave birth to the chant of "U.S.A." that later resounded through Republican rallies...
Manheim's decades of devoted labor - translating more than 100 books for often minuscule fees - were recognized last year by the MacArthur Foundation, which rewards "exceptionally talented individuals." It singled him out for the top award: $60,000 a year, tax free, for life. Says Manheim: "My main pride is that I know how to be simple. When inexperi enced people run into an everyday ex pression in a foreign work that seems weird to them, they change it into some thing equally weird. But when you know a language well, you can translate the natural into the natural...