Word: regarded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hope for the best; the necessity is to expect the worst. Yet, since the Soviet Union remains a closed gate, both forms of anticipation reveal more of ourselves than of the Soviets. For nearly half a century, the West has been a people of gate watchers in regard to the Soviet Union. Once more we address our questions to the gatekeeper: Does his relative youth signal flexibility or merely a longer reign of adamancy? Does his background in agriculture suggest less emphasis on the military? Is this changing of the guard merely plus ca change? No one on the other...
...this regard, Andropov's brief tenure may have provided a hint of what the West can expect from Gorbachev. Andropov's ascendance, too, occasioned high hopes in the West. The code words of wishful thinking were the same: moderate, pragmatist, technocrat, sophisticate. Within a day of his selection, there was talk of an Andropov era, a phrase that suggested a clean and welcome break with the past. His style seemed fresh and that, it was assumed, connoted a change in the content of Soviet policy. Here was a Soviet leader who would be comfortable and stimulating on the Georgetown cocktail...
...Regard Malcolm L. Kushner, humor consultant, and how he got to be this...
...kind of class warfare has broken out between some pricey drug attorneys and their prosecutor peers, who tend to regard such lawyers, honest or dishonest, with indiscriminate contempt. At a recent Florida meeting attended by 200 drug defense lawyers, one attorney denounced harassing prosecutors as "young scumheads." A speaker at the conference, Howard Weitzman, the highly regarded defender of John De Lorean, said that many prosecutors are simply vindictive: "You're driving the Mercedes; they're driving the Chevy Nova. You're everything they want...
...CASUAL OBSERVER of Harvard theater gets the definite impression that relatively few people want to put on a comedy. Sure, there are occasional Shakespeare or Wilde pieces, but very rarely is there a comedy that one can regard as real relaxation therapy. Mostly, the theatergoer gets a strong dose of serious drama pregnant with a serious message. During the midterm season, such an overdose of gravity could be dangerous to your health, or at least to your stomach. Not to worry, however. Into this season of dramatic doldrums comes The Good Doctor, and any strong message he might have...