Word: self
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...council has managed to appease Harvard's mammoth bureaucracy, it demonstrates an unconscionable--even frightening--lack of understanding of what it means to represent the student body. Any controversial issue--like the Anti-Finals Club Resolution that was voted on last night--throws the council into a frenzy of self-doubt, confusion, and terror over misrepresenting the students...
...Personally, professionally and creatively, these may well be the best three years of my life," she enthuses. "I am experiencing a rebirth." Such themes -- independence, job fulfillment and spiritual renewal -- are central elements of Lear's. Divided into five sections, including "Pleasures" and "Self Center," the premiere issue features an interview with Philippine President Corazon Aquino and original fiction by Doris Lessing. There are also inspirational profiles of half a dozen exemplars of the Lear's woman, a combination of elegance, success and self-awareness. Most revolutionary are the fashion pages, which feature models ranging from...
...press entourage had dwindled. Rally crowds were thin. In a Florida address, the ordinarily aggressive Senator was on the defensive. "Whatever you see on TV ads, Bob Dole is not going to raise taxes," he said, once again employing the third-person syntax that is beginning to sound like self-parody. "Bob Dole has never raised taxes...
...written by them and by nobody else. But of course, it's a lot to ask for!" Her extravagant request was answered. In this last collection -- all or parts of four unpublished novels, plus four stories and a radio talk -- the unmistakable Pym piquancy is everywhere. It mocks a self-centered woman in the 1940s as she awakens: "Something unpleasant had happened. And then she remembered. It was the war." It characterizes a Hungarian discussing the liability of touring Budapest with a husband: "You do not see the moon and the river. You are thinking only of what you shall...
...their wont they do not line up neatly behind one candidate). There are the impassioned populists, which is what Gephardt recently decided he would become. There is the party's Washington establishment, dedicated to whittling away at Reaganism by deft compromises, which is what Gephardt belonged to until his self-reinvention. He was also once associated with the Atari Democrats, though Dukakis now might have more of a claim to that half- forgotten label. The old-fashioned liberals have Paul Simon to carry their banner, at least until it becomes clear that there are not quite enough of them. Jackson...