Word: robinsons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...nearly 30, Bragg grew up listening to music rather than to politicos--and everything from country and western to soul to pop can still be traced in his own songs. He found the most solace, however, in songs by Smokey Robinson, clever songs that showed love wasn't the perfect world of flowers and fireworks every other songwriter promised it would be. Even now, Bragg holds that "Nine times out of 10, it's like being hit with a sledge hammer...and it's not always a nice kind of hangover...
...those songs, tunes like "Greetings to the New Brunette" and "Levi Stubbs' Tears," are what Bragg knows he does best. Like the catchy Smokey Robinson classics, they show off a real eye for the details of true-love-gone-sour...
Such acts used to be swept under the run; everyone used to pretend everyone else was well-meaning. After all, when Jackie Robinson belted one racist opponent, it was only because he had twice ignored the player's taunts. "I had no cheeks left to turn," he said. Baseball players these day are more interested in sticking out their chins and putting up their dukes than in turning their cheeks...
...more will pack their bags. By the year 2000 only a tiny handful will remain. Most departing Americans will have to clear lumps from their throats at farewell parties. "Hell, you are working for the world on this job, not just the U.S. Government," says Commission Hydrologist Frank Robinson, 59, who will soon retire to Florida after 38 years on the canal. "The canal has been a mission, avocation. Lots of people feel bad about leaving...
...separation of powers, often seen as one of the cardinal virtues of the U.S. system, is actually one of its most incapacitating flaws. So argues Donald L. Robinson, professor of government at Smith College, in this probing study of the presidency and the Constitution. In Robinson's view, Congress has yielded the President some of its power to define policies but has impeded his efforts to execute them. The result: chronic deadlock. A Government thus divided against itself, he writes, cannot stand up to such challenges as trillion-dollar debt and explosive foreign entanglements. His proposed remedies go beyond familiar...