Word: reading
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...devil make her do it? Who cares? Don't try to read too much into every frog, dog and December Bee motif in Woman in Mind. It's just fun to watch. Even sober...
Akers will read from her poetry in Boylston Hall's Ticknor Lounge...
...last week's decision to pursue development of both the mobile MX missile and the Midgetman. Either one alone would serve the nation's security needs, but both have strong supporters in Congress. This method smacks of perfidious pragmatism to one of the few papers Reagan is known to read and enjoy, the conservative weekly Human Events, which bristles with articles critical of the new Administration. "I do not think President Bush's concept of the presidency can work," writes Patrick Buchanan, communications director in the Reagan White House. "Americans care much more about ideas and ideals than about 'bipartisanship...
...departing Old Guard, dubbed the "dead souls" in a reference to Nikolai Gogol's 19th century novel, read like a Who's Who from the time of Leonid Brezhnev. Included were a former President, a former Prime Minister, five marshals, six generals and a portfolio of onetime Politburo members. What's more, they had "requested" to resign in an extraordinary statement that expressed "unanimous support for the political course of our dear party." As Gorbachev explained to the plenum, "One generation of party members has naturally to replace another...
...some of us who work the hardest. I'm in a class for slow learners." And so we arranged for the motorcade to stop, and this girl had been positioned out there with her teacher. When we drove away -- just tears streaming down her face, the tears. I read her letter, kind of choked up. It was a beautiful thing that the girl had petitioned her President and that in some way we were at least able to respond. When I mentioned her later in this big auditorium full of the cheering best and the brightest, I could see some...