Word: sinkings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sink-or-swim situation, do you really think we can trust...
...vote for their pocketbooks in 1980, not for a "beauty contest." An aide backed Miller up: "Eventually, Kennedy will be forced to discuss dollars and cents, and when he does, we'll peel him like an onion." Said a White House economist: "Kennedy's economic philosophy would sink of its own weight if exposed...
...there is a need for this sort of Ring. If only to remind audiences that Wagner need not sink from the weight of his pomposity, that there can be levity as well as profundity in these mythological epics, Sellars has performed a valuable service. Most modern Rings either slavishly follow Wagner's "intentions"--as though he knew what they were himself--or unmoor themselves entirely from his ideas and drift into meaninglessness. Not quite dismissing Wagner, but not quite taking him seriously, this Ring is above all refreshing...
...analysis. Although his approach, as one might expect, concentrates too heavily on the American side of the negotiating process, he successfully relates the intricacies of the Washington side of the table. He describes how President Carter's diplomatic naivete and moralistic approach to an essentially amoral process combined to sink many of his initiatives. He dissects the American team's frustrations, while underscoring Carter's desire "to do more than just dot the i's and cross the t's on a document that would be widely perceived as Henry Kissinger's handiwork." Talbott also successfully depicts how each side...
...York Herald Tribune's Sunday magazine supplement to announce the coming of the pop-rock culture. Readers accustomed to spending their weekends with articles like "Brazil: Colossus of the South" were suddenly snapping awake to such Wolfean fare as "Oh, Rotten Gotham -Sliding Down Into the Behavioral Sink," "Natalie Wood and the Shockkkkkk of Recognition" and "Muvva Earth and Codpiece Pants." The prose itself rollicked with words like "lollygagging" and "infarcted," embedded in pages that were covered with a confetti of punctuation marks...