Word: rosee
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...several major international events during the time the Class of 1960 was at Harvard: the Soviet Union invaded Hungary, shot down Gary Powers and the U-2 plane he piloted on a spy mission over Russian soil: China developed its own atomic bomb; the Suez Canal crisis brewed; Castro rose to power; and racial conflict in South Africa came to a head in the bloody Sharpeville riots...
...there were a competition for indelible images, this simple homage to Truffaut would be matched only by the sustained audience applause that greeted the final shot of Woody Allen's The Purple Rose of Cairo, another critical favorite. A young wife, her dream of eloping with a movie idol crushed, finds another dream born while gazing raptly at another wonderful picture. For the few privileged moments when Truffaut and Allen occupied center screen, Cannes declared that the film industry is only on loan to the merchants. It belongs, first and finally, to the magicians...
Indeed, the ritual of the graceful no is Ronald Reagan's virtuosity. He fired the air-traffic controllers on a beautifully sunny morning in the Rose Garden with a calm and injured tone in his voice. That action as much as any other in his first term established him as a leader to be reckoned with. To reduce the federal deficit, Reagan cut back funds for cities and states. Mayors and Governors denounced him at their conventions but also streamlined their regimes. A surprising number of them now have balanced budgets. Of course, they still complain about Reagan...
Then Congressman Wilbur Mills, the capital's leading tax legislator, paid a visit to the White House. In a couple of leisurely circuits around the Rose Garden, Mills explained how many times Kennedy would have to say no and to whom. Kennedy's enthusiasm for tax reform waned. And in the end, his tax program centered on major tax cuts and very minor tax reforms...
...peace." Since then, Rawlings has moderated his rhetoric. He has imposed an austerity package prescribed by the International Monetary Fund, which has, among other things, eliminated government subsidies on oil products and devalued the cedi, Ghana's hyperinflated currency. Last year the country's gross national product rose for the first time in a decade. Says John Ijichi, Ghana's loan officer at the World Bank in Washington: "What is refreshing in Ghana is that people openly admit that the situation is their fault...