Word: repeatedness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Christian Okoye had never seen an American football game before 1982. When he did see one, he didn't much like it. The elongated shape of the ball seemed peculiar. He found the repeated stops and starts boring and confusing. Worse, he felt the frequent substitutions from the sidelines robbed...
At the same time, Lithuania's Communist Party is on the brink of cutting its ties to the national organization. Fearing defeat in elections scheduled for February, the Lithuanian leadership is desperate to redeem the local party in the voters' eyes, despite warnings from Moscow that perestroika will disintegrate under...
In the December 7 commentary piece "593 and Counting...," the Crimson incorrectly stated that 2000 Palestinians have been detained without trial in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza. The same error was repeated in the December 13 opinion piece "The Editor Strikes Back." In both cases, the correct figure...
Later I felt very strongly about decisions that had very little to do with reality. I expressed this view on repeated occasions in the mid-'80s, when great changes were taking place in socialist societies, primarily in the Soviet Union. In the leadership there was a majority, influenced by Honecker...
Can any of Czechoslovakia's 15.5 million citizens have more cause to be astounded by the events of recent weeks than Vaclav Havel? Since the Soviet invasion in 1968, Havel has been the conscience of Prague, a world-famed playwright who might have exploited his status as an intellectual superstar...