Word: sterne
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...momentum of the campaign. Reagan entered the White House with a clear-cut set of positions that in his mind (and the minds of many cowed opponents) had been ratified by his sweeping election victory. The agenda?cut social spending, slash taxes, start a big military buildup, voice a stern anti-Soviet line in foreign affairs?was set. The priorities were clear: get the budget and tax cuts through Congress before anything else...
Santa Claus: The prototype of this jolly old gift-giving gentleman was a stern but kindly bishop who lived in Asia Minor in the fourth century. St. Nicholas, so legend goes, learned that the impoverished father of three young women planned to allow them to solicit in order to provide dowries. Filling three bags with gold, Nicholas threw them into the maidens' rooms. All were soon happily married, and St. Nicholas was forever associated with unexpected gifts...
...rock are selling well this season and deserve their $12-plus pricetags. Two books chronicle English-rock-innovator-turned-serious-actor David Bowie; the best of which is a wide edition called Bowie: An Illustrated Record. The Book of Rock Lists by Rolling Stone critics Dave Marsh and Kevin Stern is chock-full of lists of groups with the worst names, the best clothes and other minutiae. Christgau's Record Guide by Village Voice critic Robert Christgau describes--and grades--the rock albums of the past decade. And The Compleat Beatles, a $13.95 compendium of sheet music, interviews and pictures...
Alternately stern and folksy, the once and present actor made his customary skillful use of props (a map of Europe, a chart comparing missile lev els) as he delivered his message. His points: the U.S. and its allies cut back on military spending while the Soviets not only built up their conventional forces but steadily added to their arsenal of SS-20 missiles. NATO's plan to deploy new Pershing II and land-based cruise missiles was designed only to counter this threat. All programs should and would be canceled if Moscow would dismantle its own medium-range missile...
...Europeans, the increase in overkill capacity is an irrational act, an absurdity," says Fritz Stern, provost and a professor of history at Columbia University...