Word: solidities
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Pine Street, Barbara Johnson, wife of Philadelphia Daily News Staff Writer Tyree Johnson, viewed the blaze from her front porch. "You could see the flames, 20, 30 feet above the rooftops, reaching over like blazing fingers, igniting houses first on Osage, then adjacent houses on Pine. Soon a solid wave of flame was sweeping down the street...
...mother would be a bit odd, and they are. Two narcissists that resemble Adams House stereotypes play co-stars in their mother's little melodramas. Philip Resnik is the very portrait of the artist as a young snob, but Laurence Bouvard's irritatingly Shakespearean accent detracts from an otherwise solid performance...
...Kladko's second error is not quite as silly. In passing, he claims that although the German soldiers of World War II did not act on as solid a moral basis as our own troops in that conflict, their position was comparable to that of the American soldiers who fought the Vietnam War. Both groups, he says, were forced by the draft or by duty to fight "aggressive, immoral ways." This comparison is an insult to history and to the soldiers who fought in Indochina. To the soldiers of the time, North Vietnamese Communists were totalitarian aggressors...
...Black and White muscled through a powerful headwind, to capture a solid, final victory of the season...
There used to be a solid center that shamed the jesters and smothered the nonsense with dignity and a call to high ideals. Ike was in the White House. Sam Rayburn ran the House. Men like George Aiken and Richard Russell resided in the Senate. When they gathered to deal with critical issues they were not Republicans or Democrats or liberals or conservatives. They were men with a larger purpose than themselves. It seems too long a time since the likes of them...