Word: rejectionism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Of more immediate importance for Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev are the domestic effects of the quake. The enormous costs of rebuilding Armenian towns and villages will be a serious setback to perestroika, his program of economic restructuring. The political aftershocks are already severe. Even before the tragedy, Armenians distrusted Gorbachev...
Eleven ministers are nervously keeping their December datebooks as open as they can this year. Reason: they are on the hush-hush list of semifinalists who hope to become the next minister of Riverside Church, the ritzy Manhattan citadel of Protestant liberalism. This week a lucky three or four among...
Gorbachev's mission was more than humanitarian: it was a major test of his reformist leadership. He knows that out of the despair of Armenia's disaster he must find a way to regain the political trust of a people who over the past ten months have become estranged from...
This honest rejection of fraudulently uplifting sentiment is admirable in a way. But Rain Man's restraint is, finally, rather like Raymond's gabble. It discourages connections, keeping you out instead of drawing you in. -- Richard Schickel
But those who fought what they considered to be implicit recognition of Israel in the final resolutions were voted down. In an analysis published last week, Bassam Abu Sharif, Arafat's chief spokesman, proclaimed that the result was a declaration that met the conditions set by the U.S. for recognition...