Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Chernenko's talk with French Premier Pierre Mauroy, says a French official who attended the meeting, the Soviet visitor came across as "a man of conviction and even punch." At one point, Mauroy referred to "heaven" as he described the importance of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland. This remark elicited a flash of that rarest of Chernenko's known qualities, a sense of humor. "Heaven," he quipped, "is already inhabited?by our cosmonauts...
Such talk stunned the stock market, which has been backsliding for a month. On the day of Regan's remark, the Dow Jones industrial average plunged 24.19 points, its biggest one-day drop in more than 15 months. Observed William LeFevre, a market strategist at Purcell, Graham, a New York City investment house: "Wall Street is saying this do-nothing attitude about the deficit can't go on. Investors have lost confidence in the Administration's ability to deal with its fiscal affairs." Since the Dow hit a peak of 1286.64 in early January, the market...
Mansfield: About Mr. Hollis remark about Blacks looking to find jobs outside the automotive action area. I think the best way to do that however would be to abolish alternative action and do away with those special appointment which are institutionalized by alternative action. This, I think, would move us away from the tokenism of the 12 percent across the board approach Blacks now are perfectly capable of organizing themselves as individuals, and as a group to undertake positions which are not especially set up for them...
...politician who usually wins such tests with interviewers is Ronald Reagan. The questioner may seem to be exposing Reagan's unfamiliarity with a subject, but should he press too hard, Reagan, with a gesture or a light remark, will suddenly seem to win the exchange. The impressionism of television is what makes it so powerful and unaccountable. Robert M. Teeter, who polls for Republicans, once carried out an experiment with two groups of ten and twelve people. He showed them a brief bit of videotape of politicians they did not know. The sound was off; the candidate was seen...
...female form appear to have preoccupied H.D. in ways that are not always clear. Says Biographer Barbara Guest: "She had an assortment of ideas and events that were repetitious; they were thoughts and images that might be embellished by her reading, or actual experiences never to be relinquished." The remark may explain why the poet on the page appears static and obsessively withdrawn, and the aura of the poet-priestess seems theatrical and self-indulgent. Excerpts from her letters are forgettable; she has little to say about other writers, and does not appear to have seriously concerned herself with...