Word: terme
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...author's favorite words is "segue," an old music term, now used freely in the movie business. It means to move smoothly and without hesitation from one element to another. The Red White and Blue, in fact, segues from the radical politics of the '60s to Viet Nam to the bloodless take-over of the nation by a communications culture in which concepts of image and credibility have become acceptable alternatives for substance and truth...
...people in the title are all in their 60s and living in south Wales. The most prominent among them are Malcolm and Gwen Cellan-Davies, Charlie and Sophie Norris, and Peter and Muriel Thomas, each couple a tottering example of long-term marital pathology. Peter and Muriel have not touched each other in ten years; Charlie is a night-after-night drunk; Gwen is restive in the presence of her ineffectual husband. These people find their routines interrupted by the return of Alun and Rhiannon Weaver, friends from their youth who have decided to move back home. Alun has made...
Students are also being singled out for a clampdown. All Chinese universities have launched new ideological indoctrination courses with the spring term. Vice Premier Li Peng, a conservative who chairs the state Education Commission, said last week that only those with "political integrity are to be regarded as qualified students." Political tests for students were last seen during the Cultural Revolution. Another top education official called last week for students to be sent to factories and farms to be "integrated with reality and physical labor" -- another Maoist prescription...
...intelligence data as well as arms to Iran) is the same Reagan who has let divisive disputes between the Pentagon and State Department paralyze arms-control policy for six years. The defects of what the commissioners euphemistically called Reagan's "management style," and what some former associates more bluntly term mental laziness, were largely offset during his successful first term by the advice of an exceptionally talented group of aides. But since re-election the President has been surrounded by advisers whose own deficiencies, as the commission makes clear, disastrously dovetail with those of their boss...
...Reagan recover? Can he establish control over a fractured and demoralized Administration, set an agenda that would give the nation and world a renewed sense of leadership and prevent the last 23 months of his term from becoming a limping and possibly dangerous procession into the twilight? Perhaps. But it will involve conveying to the American people that he now, finally, understands what went wrong and what mistakes he made, and providing convincing assurances that they won't happen again. The real necessity is that Reagan become again the active, engaged President he was at times, though only at times...