Word: undoings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...problems. Whether that reactive tendency, to block what a President proposes, is perceived as good or bad depends, of course, on the observer's political point of view. In any case, Congress this year will not produce many dramatic new legislative achievements. Reagan, in fact, has asked it to undo much of what its predecessors have done...
...author has strained to pack too many ironic asides to the paragraph. In Nobody's Angel he allows some breathing space between wordplay. Unfortunately, a powerful sense of place and character is not sufficient to sustain an entire novel. The hero's sentimental nihilism and unfulfilled longings undo the hard work that has gone before, and the final epiphany-the revelation that there is no revelation-is too dim to illuminate Nobody's Angel. McGuane has not so much made the Old West new as buried many of the romantic myths under a modern veneer of laconic...
Groups like the Gay Students Association (GSA) provide gay people with a support group which helps undo years of negative conditioning. For me, a GSA meeting was the first chance I ever had to meet real people who felt the way I do. Admittedly it was not an easy step to take. I can remember pacing around Phillips Brooks house for hours trying to decide whether or not to go into that first meeting. For me, that step was essential. Feelings which I had suppressed for so long could now be expressed openly and honestly. It was a startling experience...
...referred to the U.S. as "the last best hope of man on earth," and recounted the evils of Big Government as if he were still the outsider challenging the federal system. In Nashville he bristled at charges that he is reactionary, insisting, "Our goal is to undo the damage of the big-taxing, big-spending policies that have put average Americans ... into the financial bind they feel today...
...Pentagon procurement are perhaps the most worrisome element of the big Reagan buildup. Inflation has been coming down sharply in recent months, and last week the Labor Department reported a drop of .1% in. producer prices during February, the sharpest decline in six years. Surging defense spending could undo much of that progress...