Word: rids
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Thus we dedicate this issue to all those forces of Nature that have tried to rid us of our embarrassment-by-the-sea. On behalf of Boston, here's a hearty razz to New York...
...shadow of anxiety is seen to cross the broad, luminous face of American democracy. Was the Revolution a social mistake after all? Should Benjamin Franklin have gone to the French court in a wig instead of his own egalitarian hair? Was it really such a good idea to get rid of George III and Lord North? Given the uninflected worship of money that marks the 1980s, it is no wonder that the spectacle of privilege enjoying its own toilette has become America's hottest cultural ticket. Thus Lord Marchmain of Brideshead becomes the Blake Carrington of the American upper middle...
...American way of life has been corrupted by bad guys, who bribe politicians and don't get convicted of crimes. Cure, which is responsible only to the President, has been created to get rid of this filth. Let them meet their maker, as they say in the gun-slingin' trade...
However, Baldwin soon began to look beyond this wall of prejudice by looking inward. Two of his more famous essays, "Equal In Paris" and "Notes Of A Native Son," record Baldwin's first efforts to delve into his own nature, to rid himself of his own prejudices and preconceptions, and to develop his own philosophy free from the influences of his heroes and predecessors. The former describes not only Baldwin's first experiences outside this country, but also his first realization that he himself is intrinsically an American no matter where he chooses to live. The latter is a magnificent...
...Getting rid of him, however, may not be so easy. Though his alliance with Arafat has never been more than a marriage of convenience on both sides, Arafat needs to demonstrate a hold on P.L.O. factions outside Arafat's own group, Fatah; Abbas is very nearly the only splinter leader available for that purpose. He is also a symbol of a particular type of Palestinian: the generation that grew up in refugee camps, became guerrillas in early manhood, and never accepted any goal but the establishment of a full-fledged Palestinian state, or any method of achieving it except armed...