Word: rabid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Scattered through The Real War are references to the evil wrought by protesting students--"Unfortunately, America is still suffering from the legacy of the 1960's. A rabid anti-intellectualism swept the nation's campuses then, and fantasy reigned supreme." (Ohhh, so that's what The Movement really was--"rabid anti-intellectualism," let me get that down...
...Knight-Ridder but ahead of just about every other large chain. Neuharth argues that Gannett has never acquired a paper it did not improve. This is testimony partly to the sorry quality of medium-sized papers in the U.S. But it is also true that Gannett has expunged the rabid right-wing excesses from a few of its papers-notably those in Springfield, Mo., and Nashville -and dramatically upgraded other properties, like the Camden (N.J.) Courier-Post. As even Morris Udall admits, "If you're going to have chain newspapers, you're not going to do much better...
...vintage" Kansas City clips are few and far between--but they can't argue with his results. The entire film rushes along to Kansas City 4/4 time; a spare 91 minutes long, The Last of the Blue Devils is one sweet breath of Kansas City air, heady enough for rabid jazz fans and casual filmgoers alike...
...then there is Andrew Drake. A mild that Ukranian nationalism will be his cause for his fourth book. Perfect vehicles for displaying the author's well-known and rabid hatred of the Soviets, Drake and his crew of "freedom fighters" make the moves that turn the grain shortage into possible Armageddon. There is something disturbing about the terrorist-as-hero syndrome so pervasive in contemporary thrillers, but with writers struggling to match newspaper headlines, they seem compelled to have characters willing to use extremism in defense of their vision of liberty...
...ambiguities of the '70s may disturb their moral self-image, and with it, their yearning for clear-cut conclusions. In fact, the U.S. on the whole behaved with considerable virtue, facing up to crises (a lost war and a broken presidency) that might have turned other societies rabid or anarchic. The U.S. has not been at war since it left Viet Nam, and if it has not brought conclusive harmony to the Middle East, it has led Egypt and Israel to live in peace. It has, more over, the forbearing and civilized in the midst of all the Ayatullah...