Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Gehrig's disease), was the author of the landmark literary biography James Joyce (1959). In his numerous books and essays he displayed an acute, doctrine-free sensitivity to the many ways that writers such as Yeats, Beckett, Eliot and Auden translate experience into art. In Wilde, Ellmann confronted a somewhat different challenge: an author whose most complex, illustrious accomplishment was the style and content of his own life...
...front-running candidates pay fealty to the sanctity of Social Security and ardently embrace much of what the Gray Lobby advocates. Does this mean that AARP and the other groups will not unite behind a single candidate and that their impact may be somewhat diffused? Probably. But that in itself is a victory. It shows that their energetic new force has already helped shape the 1988 political agenda, and no doubt will continue...
...tears. He was overcome with emotion. He stared down at the table, and the tears ran down his cheeks. "I'm sorry," he said as he found his voice. "I don't like to do that." It was a rare show of emotion for the cool and distant Hart. Somewhat defensively, he pulled himself together. "I don't weep for myself," he said. "I weep for this country...
Issues, Hart insisted in his rhetoric of return, are what propelled him back into the race. "I hoped that my ideas for strategic investment economics, for military reform, and for enlightened engagement would be adopted and put forward by others," he declared. Even though he somewhat arrogantly sent his position papers to the other Democratic candidates after his initial withdrawal, Hart feels that his ideas were ignored. But Hart's strength as a candidate is less as an ideological thinker and more as an adroit packager. When Hart takes questions from an audience, it is striking how formidable...
...blood. In an interview with TIME, Dissident Playwright Vaclav Havel called Jakes a "man without a specific face, without his own ideas." On the other hand, said Havel, "in our situation any change is good." Jakes's pro-Soviet credentials suggest that he may be at least somewhat more amenable to Gorbachev's demands for reform than Husak was. In his first speech as party leader, Jakes used some of the "democratic" buzz words of the Soviet leader's reform campaign. In any case, there was little doubt that Jakes's selection had been vetted by the Kremlin. Gorbachev...