Word: sterne
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...recent Louisville Courier-Journal editorial scowled about "his defense of the indefensible." The Lexington Herald-Leader was stern: "What may be acceptable behavior for an entrepreneur is not acceptable behavior for the Governor." Brown insisted last week that he had never used cocaine, in fact had never even seen any, and that he does not "condone Jimmy Lambert or anybody else who might have used...
...military leaders would have to decide whether to jolt the country with another crackdown or take advantage of the good will generated by the Pope. To salvage his reputation in Moscow and among hard-liners at home, Jaruzelski needed to counter the Pontiff's bold words with stern action. To win Western support for Poland's listing economy, he would have to go even further in reaching out to the church and society. Jaruzelski could, of course, also choose to do nothing, as if the Pope had never come. But as a State Department analyst warned last week...
Gore Vidal's novels, plays and essays can be divided roughly into three areas of animosity. The first is the author's belief that Western civilization erred when it abandoned pagan humanism for the stern, heterosexual authority of the Judaeo-Christian patriarchy. See Julian, his 1964 novel about the apostate nephew of Constantino the Great. The second area that draws Vidal's scorn is American politics, which he dramatizes as a circus of opportunism and hypocrisy. See The Best Man; Washington, D.C.; Burr. The most freewheeling disdain is directed at popular culture, macho sexuality and social pretensions...
Hitler's odious power to spellbind an audience has wreaked havoc once again in the furor over the fake diaries [May 16]. Even in death, Hitler has destroyed the reputation and credibility of gullible historians and editors, most notably those at the magazine Stern. All it took was a forger for the Fűhrer to bask in the limelight yet another time. Had the diaries proved authentic, then collectors would have been at one another's throats to own the journals of a man who caused such worldwide suffering...
...Conservative Party headquarters; twice during the campaign she has publicly squelched Francis Pym, her Foreign Secretary. Pym's first misstep was to declare on television that he was willing to discuss the future of the Falkland Islands if Argentina drops its belligerence. Thatcher immediately interrupted him with the stern correction, "but not sovereignty, not sovereignty." Pym's second mistake was to note, again on TV, that "landslides on the whole do not produce successful governments." Snapped Thatcher: "I think I can handle a landslide all right...