Word: reigns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Diaspora look to Israel for qualities that are not found by Diaspora Jews at home. Israel depends on the support of such Jews. This support, though, may be threatened when the idealism, egalitarianism and spiritual fervor of the early settles dissipates, and Western--and seemingly amoral--materialism begins to reign...
...contrast, Bundy's successor, historian Franklin L. Ford, concentrated on the expansion of Harvard's undergraduate applicant pool, which reached nation wide proportions in the 1960's. His reign came to an end in the late '60s, when student turbulence swept college campuses...
...veteran Yevtushenko watchers, such comments sound like the Angry Young Poet of old. During the Khrushchev era, Yevtushenko became a hero of liberal Soviet intellectuals for his bold poems condemning anti-Semitism (Babi Yar) and Stalin's reign of terror (The Heirs of Stalin), many of which he recited on poetry-reading tours of the West. Beginning in the late 1960s, Yevtushenko's dissident fire seemed to dim, as he churned out "official" verse celebrating Soviet workers and attacking...
Though the actual groundbreaking is years away, preparation has already started. The guidebook for this magical museum was published late last year. Ronald Reagan's Reign of Error, by Mark Green (a former Nader Raider) and Gail MacColl (a veteran preppie parodist who worked on The Preppie Handbook and an L.L. Bean catalogue spoof), diligently tallies the seemingly endless stream of Reagan's assertions that only the "Great Communicator" himself has been able to substantiate...
...reprinted weekly in The Washington Post. Congdon & Weed has published the serialized strip in a book, giving readers a prolonged look at Stamaty's notable knack for capturing in detail the mood and idiosyncrasies of our nation's capital during Reagan's tenure. As a chronicle of the reign of the New Right, the book is as depressing as it is funny...