Word: touche
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cheery enough, but it really belongs to another poem. The sense of advocated surrender in the final stanza is unmistakable. Not that Reagan would be unusual in having contemplated death as a way out of adolescence, but one does not think of his early life as having been touched with "sorrow and pain." Of course, the poem might simply have been the product of a bad moment. But even a momentary touch of desperation is interesting in such...
Some observers detect in him a touch of demagogy and personal vanity. One photographer who has followed Walesa notes that he never passes a mirror without stopping to pat his hair into place. In interviews, he sometimes seems flippant to the point of arrogance. In private conversation, he has a marked fondness for first-person pronouns. In public appearances, however, he can exhibit flashes of deep humility. A crowd of miners in Jastrzebie last October asked Walesa who could teach them democracy. His answer: "Who? Not Lesio [a diminutive of Lech], for he is too small, too stupid. Yourselves. Everybody...
...hostages' families: except for a bright star of hope at the top, he left the 24-ft. spruce dark as a somber "vigil of remembrance." Said Carter: "Our American hostages have not yet come home. But most of our prayers have been answered. They have stayed in touch with their families. So far as we know, they are safe, and their lives have been spared...
...overall dour situation, U.S. economy in 1980 showed some pockets of surprising strength and While the Midwest and the auto were suffering depression-like areas of New England and the Coast, where the computer industry other high technology firms have plants, hardly felt the slump. Investors who would not touch a steel stock to buy new issues of Genentech, a Francisco-based genetic engineering or Apple Computer, the California maker of personal computers. Unemployment in Massachusetts was only 5%, or one-third less than the national level. Colorado and other Rocky Mountain prospered with the search for new domestic energy...
...face broke into this great goofy grin. I imagined how he felt. He didn't know that what he was looking at was the sky or that the color was called blue. He only knew that it was beautiful. And I thought, God, just let me be in touch with that baby's feelings...