Word: successful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...January, the public address system blared Happy Days Are Here Again, and many delegates sank into a liberal nostalgia, dreaming of a redistributed American pie. Clinton Reilly, a moderate Democrat and political consultant, listened to the rhetoric and shook his head. "One reason for Reagan's success," he said, "is that he appealed to the self-interest of the middle class. If Democrats don't learn to make the same appeal, if they only talk about the needs of the poor and don't include the middle class, they're going to lose again...
...tragedy of America's mission in Viet Nam. The show that has captured Broadway is Les Miserables, with its themes of suffering and redemption, and the injunction "Look down!" -- meaning look down upon the poor, the homeless. The injunction of the Reagan years has been "Look up!" -- to success, to wealth...
...very old, and have disputed the possession of the world ever since it was made . . . Innovation is the salient energy; Conservatism the pause on the last movement." But that can be tricky. Reagan in his way was no conservative and was something of an innovator, who tried, with limited success, to reverse deep-rooted Government traditions going back to the New Deal. In any case, Emerson also observed that "every hero becomes a bore at last...
...York Senator Daniel Moynihan and Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton, is the best example of this approach. It is based on two truths: that unconditional aid leads to long-standing dependency and that the impoverished children of this nation cannot merely be abandoned. The new approach -- being tried with some success in states such as Massachusetts, California, New Jersey and New York -- is to require recipients to enter training and job-placement programs. In some of the proposals, the Federal Government would become the employer of last resort...
...this any way to run a TV series? Maybe not, but since its debut two years ago, Moonlighting has moved up steadily in the ratings to its current No. 9 spot. The show's success is Executive Producer Glenn Gordon Caron's best response to charges that his work habits are undisciplined. "It sounds pompous," says Caron, "but maybe it's irresponsible to bring a television show in on time and on budget every week and have it be about nothing...