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...real decline began later, when the drug dealers and muggers came on to the scene, and it gathered frightening speed after the riots of 1964. The '60s and '70s also saw civil rights protests and parades and attempts to resurrect the lost spirit. Yet only now, on the cusp of a new decade, are there tentative signs of another Harlem renaissance...
Haig pledged to resurrect Henry Kissinger's policy of "linkage" in foreign affairs, meaning that U.S. relations with the Soviet Union will be directly affected by Moscow's behavior anywhere in the world. Haig promised that he would be the principal shaper of the Administration's foreign policy, not incoming National Security Adviser Richard Allen. This statement led Democratic Senator John Glenn of Ohio to observe wryly that Allen has been saying too frequently on TV interview shows that he will keep a low profile. "You have your work cut out for you in that area," Glenn...
Down just 7-0 at the half, Restic still had time to resurrect his running game, but a fumble on the second half kickoff let Yale surge to a 14-0 advantage. Anxious to use the big tailwind, Restic ordered Buckley to throw in the third quarter; it didn't work. And by the time Harvard had wrested the ball from the ball-control Yale offense. Buckley had to go to the air again because time was running out. Besieged by a huge Yale pass rush (which could afford to blitz because it was not worried by the still-frail...
...have been hailed as a victory against the "New Right." One speaker even went so far as to claim that the "left" was was destroyed by Reagan's victory. Sorry, but Reagan's victory was the destruction of the Democratic liberal coalition which the anti-Reagan demonstrators hope to resurrect...
Here, Ernotte has invented a little epilogue, with a leap forward in time, as Shaw did in Saint Joan. Richard, wearing a modern gray (Nazi?) overcoat and a pair of spectacles, appears over the horizon and slowly walks downstage. The slain Catesby starts to resurrect from the dead, and there is a sudden complete blackout. Richard, against all tradition, has the first word in this play; must be also have the last...