Word: shaded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Below In the Shade...
...Meese makes a lovely target. Broad and a bit blubbery, trusting and more than a shade bumbling, the Attorney General is planted firmly atop the disintegrating ramparts of the Reagan Administration. He is the last centurion of the far right who stands out there, his banner still thrust high...
...more than 50 skirmishes or battles with the contras and seen more than a dozen friends die. "In Managua they don't know what the real war is like," he says. "It is tough and it is dirty, and people get killed every day." As Rodriguez sits in the shade of a store's veranda, his AK-47 gripped between his knees, he is counting the days until his demobilization. "Just a few more now," he grins, "and then I'll be going home. I don't want ever to fight again...
...When I remember that dizzy summer, that dull, stupid, lovely, dire summer, it seems that in those days I ate my lunches, smelled another's skin, noticed a shade of yellow, even simply sat, with greater lust and hopefulness--and that I lusted with greater faith, hoped with greater abandon. The people I loved were celebrities, surrounded by rumor and fanfare; the places I sat with them, movie lots and monuments...
...Thernstrom incident, any remark, by any professor, threatened to undermine academia's most cherished principle: the sanctity of the classroom. Any remark would make it a shade less true that there is something about what goes on in the classroom that removes it from the realm of debate--that whoever presides there is entitled to some unchallengeable prestige...