Word: training
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...film makers have scoured archives and garages for old footage and tracked down veterans of quixotic campaigns. Their subjects range from radical idealists to a literary anarchist to the dream of commerce at the 1939 New York World's Fair. But their object is always the same: to train a sympathetic camera on those Americans who marched toward their own versions of Utopia...
...bear the brunt of any battle with the British navy and air force, was unenthusiastic. So, to a lesser degree, was the army. On at least three occasions, Galtieri prevented offensive operations from taking place, and there is reason to speculate that when the invasion finally was put in train, in deepest secrecy and employing only naval forces, the air force, and perhaps the army, may not have known exactly what was happening until it was too late to stop...
...second half of the Times interview dealt with more philosophical questions about the Middle, East and Reagan did a lot better. His train of thought is still hard to follow but he could wax lyrical about the good guys and the bad guys and avoid getting tripped up by the facts...
...must train our youth to end slums and rebuild America." Jackson shouts in his deep preacher's cadence...
...state visits. He is at Nikita Khrushchev's elbow when the Soviet leader praises the bleak industrial landscape of the New Jersey Turnpike as a symbol of American dynamism; with Bess and Harry Truman as the couple, in bathrobes, bid good night from the back of their campaign train to an impromptu crowd of fellow ordinary Americans. Rovere's political analyses-about the Truman Administration's crippling venality, John Foster Dulles' domination of the Eisenhower Administration, John Kennedy's lack of specific goals-are often sharply unconventional. Unlike other liberal admirers of Adlai Stevenson...