Word: themes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Last week Baker bolted into the delivery room to lend a hand. In addition to inspecting the Berlin Wall and meeting East German Prime Minister Hans Modrow, Baker proposed a revamped role for the U.S. in the "whole and free" Europe that is aborning. Its theme: to refurbish existing international bodies so that they can bear new loads as they shed others. Although framed in general terms, the plan nonetheless displayed a creative flair and reassured allies that the U.S. intends to remain, in Baker's words, part of "Europe's neighborhood...
...same time, McGuane rejects the charge that he has turned his back on reality by retreating to "a kind of Early American theme park." To McGuane, both urban blight and rural isolation are symptoms of a deeper problem. "I do think that there's a kind of national illness, and I think that every American is touched by it," he says. "It's a by-product of this 20-year wave of narcissism and self-help movements and stuff where people have lost the ability to refer to things larger than themselves, and their reward is solitude. It penetrates Montana...
Last night, Harvard fans got a glimpse of what is becoming a common theme in Harvard basketball this year--the blowout. This time, it was a 114-66 loss to cross-town Big East foe Boston College...
...most important foreign policy issue, after bringing the boys home, will be keeping the Japanese out. Anxiety over foreign imports has recently been a theme of Democrats like Richard Gephardt. But before he came along, the same worries were being expounded by John Connally. There is no such thing as a presidential primary in South Carolina without a protectionist pitch to the local textile industry. When the Fourth Reich joins the Yellow Peril as an economic bogeyman, squabbling on the right between free traders and protectionists is bound to increase...
Singh's efforts have generally gone down well among the blithe spirits of Key West. Without Singh, the Truman Annex might have become "Meldorado," a pirate theme park. But if islanders appreciate having a developer as sensitive as Pritam Singh, they are also worried that he is exerting a more profound influence on the island, as an apostle of good taste in a place long known for exuberant tackiness...