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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...believe that there are many rough beasts now slouching toward Bethlehem to be born and that I have reported the progress of a few of them." Flannery O'Connor's modest self-analysis remains the most penetrating of all. Doomed by | a hereditary disease, lonely, indomitable, sustained by her faith and her work, the Southern Catholic saw herself as a lifelong outsider. When she died at 39 in 1964, she left a legacy of gothic tales obsessively concerned with characters she called "more or less primitive." The author displayed no biases. Blacks are sometimes sympathetic; just as often they bring...
...countries around the globe, the desirability and benefits of the system seem so self-evident that the agonies often endured to bring it into being are easily forgotten. Last week upheavals in two very different countries brutally reminded the world that there is no inevitability to the progress of the democratic idea. In Burma a new military regime seized power, snuffing out the hopes of that country's population for a new dawn of political freedom after the 26-year nightmare of Ne Win's repressive dictatorship. In Haiti a cadre of sergeants took over the government from a cadre...
...Jackson made his emotional plea for us to find "common ground" this past summer, I sat mesmerized by the eloquence of his words and the power of his message. I was overwhelmed by the progress this nation had made toward racial justice--until the speech was disrupted by the men sitting next...
Barnett declined to say where the bail money might come from but did say, "We're making progress." Razo has remained in jail while his trial has been delayed "four or five times," said Barnett...
...address to the General Assembly on Sept. 26; it was quickly noted that handing over large amounts of cash will undoubtedly warm his reception. The Administration's new embrace of the U.N., however, was hardly unqualified. Fitzwater said that reform of the organization is "incomplete," before adding that "the progress is striking...