Word: thorough
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...long now has the world sprung away from religion and faith that it may be ready to move back toward a compromise. Our 19th century ancestors did a thorough job of divorcing feeling from intellect. Your 20th century ancestors are beginning to seek a reconciliation. For all our dials and buttons, we have known from the start how helpless we often are before the consequences of our ingenuity. One still sees a lot of machinery these days, but very little machine worship, and almost none of the irrational overconfidence in human knowledge that the 19th century willed...
...into an American sense of technology as spectacle -- the big blue glass disk suggesting the ether from which broadcast signals were gathered -- shows how little truth there is in the idea that design is condemned to lag behind "high" art in expressive clarity. We certainly need more shows as thorough and intelligent as this one, to counteract the vulgar mania for "art stars" and remind us of the real continuities of visual culture...
...restrictions do not stop with the press. It is now illegal for South Africans even to speak in opposition to government policy or to discuss "unrest" in a private conversation--that is, not without prior permission from a government official. Big Brother could not have imagined more thorough subversion of freedom of thought and of conscience...
Reagan's breach of trust cannot be undone. But by doing justice, by showing some respect for principle, a thorough investigation and timely punishment can reaffirm the integrity of our institutions of government. From Ronald Reagan on down, those who broke the law should be brought to justice. The Administration's transgressions will still leave a residue of mistrust, but by showing that the law still rules and that all will be held accountable the Congress and the courts can start repairing the damage that the President has done...
...first time; Donald Regan learned only last week about an Israeli arms shipment to Iran in November 1985 that the U.S. had condoned. Oklahoma Democrat David Boren, who will take over chairmanship of the Senate Intelligence Committee when the next Congress convenes in January, pledges a "careful and thorough study of the NSC" aimed at returning it to its original role as a body that coordinates advice reaching the President. Some Administration officials think that Reagan will undertake a housecleaning of the NSC on his own. There is speculation that Poindexter may be made a scapegoat and forced to resign...