Word: swifts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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That seemed to be true. The union's abrupt walkout and the Administration's swift retaliation had left neither side any face-saving way to resume negotiations, particularly since the Government considered the bulk of PATCO's constituency no longer strikers but simply among the unemployed. The FAA even took steps to decertify PATCO as the legal bargaining agent for the controllers. Justifiably confident that public opinion was solidly on his side and still basking in his legislative triumphs on Capitol Hill, the President massed a historic show of force against the first labor union to challenge his Administration directly...
...Zealand's decision to play host to South Africa drew swift fire from a number of its Commonwealth partners, particularly the black African states, such as Nigeria and Zimbabwe. The 50-nation Organization of African Unity demanded that New Zealand be excluded from the 1982 Commonwealth Games in Brisbane, Australia. Nigeria helped persuade the Commonwealth's finance ministers to shift their September meeting from New Zealand to the Bahamas, a move that further vexed the besieged Muldoon. Said he: "My first reaction was to tell them to look for a good taxidermist, but I restrained myself...
Nearly everyone who was concerned with American abstract expressionism-critics, curators, the artists themselves-agreed on one thing: the movement, like its godparent, surrealism, was all about freedom. In Jackson Pollock's drips lay written the unfettered play of the mind, the swift "existential" decisions of the hand. Because it incarnated liberty, some thought, abstract expressionism transcended style. This cherished notion was very much a part of its time, a fixture of the '50s, like James Dean, the beats or the vogue for Camusian outsiders. In later years, it was more honored in the breach than...
...like many writers at the time, he became a champion of the Loyalist side in the Spanish Civil War. By 1940 he had moved far to the left and was working to get the Communist Party slate on state ballots in time for the upcoming election. His conversion was swift and complete. Writes Layman: "It seems likely from the responsibilities Hammett was given for Communist activities that he joined the party...
Teaching in a small town, I was so amazed at the potential of my high school students that I brought Swift and Voltaire into a great books curriculum. Such stuff is food for American youngsters and I found they are hungry...