Word: veneered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...next President has always resisted definition. His career has been marked by ideological gyrations. His often tangled syntax sometimes suggests a lack of inner clarity. One of the rare glimpses of the "quiet man" beneath the political veneer came in his soaring address to the Republican Convention. But rather than continuing the process of self-definition, Bush in the fall campaign relied on angry scripts, as he launched a fusillade of demeaning attacks against the hapless Michael Dukakis. Was this red-meat rhetoric reflective of the real George Bush? On election night, Bush offered the broad hint that...
...commitment to a politics of inclusion that will enrich the University environment for all students. And we must demand that the administration make a similar commitment to effectively recruit minority scholars. Otherwise the deception that has excluded minorities from faculty and administration positions at Harvard will continue beneath the veneer of affirmative action. A. Stephen Barr '89 William J. Seymour Society
...said the veneer of an effective foreign policy was more a reflection of the rise in defense spending and loans from foreign countries under the Reagan administration, rather than making responsible budget cuts...
Ever since the televised Kennedy-Nixon debates gave voters a sense of personal access to the candidates, charisma and charm have tended to overshadow all but the most transcendent election issues. But in an era of peace and at least a veneer of prosperity, the 1988 campaign has so far been dominated by slogans and sound bites masquerading as substance. Small wonder that, after two terms of aw-shucks Reaganism, the electorate seems to be measuring Bush and Dukakis by the same standards they assess Bill Cosby -- comfort and likability...
Wolfe speaks to a graduating class whose career choices have been chastened by the stock market crash. But if the plummeting paper value of American industry has stripped off the veneer of vanity from the real world, the issues that motivate Wolfe's characters are still the same...