Word: quickening
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...uncanny ability to understand his man. His experience and intuition tell him with remarkable accuracy how Reagan will behave in any situation. When, at meetings, he spots Reagan's attention slumping or his impatience mounting, he quickly signals with a shake of his head for participants to quicken the discussion or drop it. Sometimes in a crisis he will rush the President a prepared statement only to discover that Reagan has already scribbled out sentences in almost the same words. At the root of the Deaver genius is the fact that he always pushes the President to stay...
...novelist can describe time's flow past a few more bends in the river, nothing more. And nothing less: seen well, the currents and eddies that quicken, disappear and roil to the surface again during two generations of an ordinary family's journey are astonishing and mysterious. Fat-legged baby becomes child, becomes maiden, becomes mother, becomes crone. Which is real? Blink twice; the young hell raiser reappears as the sour pensioner. Which is illusion, hot sexuality or bitter recollection...
Skepticism about Soviet gambits should not preclude serious talks on controlling space weapons. Such devices are inherently destabilizing. Not only would U.S. weapons prompt a redoubled Soviet effort in space but they would be sure to quicken Moscow's buildup of offensive missiles, which in turn would force a feverish U.S. response...
...Cole Porter dropped in on the Currier House production, he'd probably want to see the second act. When the production's collective blood seems to quicken, the orchestra, led by Leon Gruenbaum's lively piano, is in top form post-intermission, particularly during "Blow, Gabriel Blow" and "Be Like the Bluebird...
...celebrations, where new life honors the continuance of life. If the rest of the year children throw mud at the deity, or whip it with sticks, or urinate on it, the long-suffering peasant Dosojin will still be cleansed by the festival night fires and will re-emerge to quicken and transform and again unify men's souls...