Word: revoltingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...what it means, with big payoffs for the public schools. Confronting what the U.S. National Commission on Excellence in Education called a "rising tide of mediocrity" threatening to destroy American education, state legislatures have appropriated more money for school systems that may have floated near bankruptcy during the tax revolt of the 1970s. Along with increased funding come stipualtion intended to Strengthen both the teaching precession and the level of instruction in the public schools; California's 1983 educational reform act established a competency test for teachers along with tougher graduation requirements for student...
...Babe Ruth was, in some sense, comparable to The Waste Land, the revolutionary and explosive poem published in 1922 by T.S. Eliot...Cash, of course, made possible the revolution in technology, industry, and, I argued, art. I suggested that Marxism is a reactionary ideology, a fearful revolt against man's natural desire for freedom and the almost limitless possibilities presented to be who has money...
...chagrined President was forced to fly to Crete to confront Gaddafi, a move that was denounced by former Premier Maurice Couve de Murville as "the greatest humiliation that France has suffered for a long time." Mitterrand has been hurt as well by public concern over the still simmering separatist revolt in the French Pacific territory of New Caledonia...
Writing in the New York Times, Cruz argued that the contra insurgency is "the revolt of Nicaraguans against oppression by other Nicaraguans." Cruz then warned congressional opponents of aid that they "have a moral obligation to insist that the Sandinistas restore Nicaragua's liberties and that the Communist world take its hands off our country." Cruz later said that it was "irrational" to believe that a cutoff of aid to the contras will lead to increased political freedoms in Nicaragua "unless you have made sure the Soviets and the Cubans are going to do the same...
...King Stag, written in 1762 by Carlo Gozzi in revolt against the realistic naturalism of contemporary theater, is a feast of the imagination with the technique and logic of the commedia dell'arte, Italy's native improvisational comedy. The third Gozzi production directed this year by Andrei Serban. The King Stag is a fairy tale set in the oriental kingdom of Serendippo where the good king Deramo is looking in vain for a worthy wife. His trusted but treacherous minister. Tartaglia, tries to insinuate his own daughter, Clarice, into the king's affections to distract the king from the beautiful...