Word: vitality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this battle until after the collapse of the Shah. On the eve of the post-Shah era, the Mujahedin wasted no time demanding a program of change that sharply contradicted Khomeini's avowed views and intentions. The monarchy was still in its death throes when the single most vital issue of the revolution surfaced: the battle between two Islams, the Islam of progress vs. the Islam of backwardness, the Islam of freedom and human dignity vs. the Islam of torture and tyranny, the Islam of social justice vs. the Islam of a privileged, ruling priestly class...
SECRETARY of State George P. Shultz waxed eloquent before a House subcommittee last week. "It we are to achieve the kind of world we all hope to see, with peace. Freedom and economic progress, democracy has to continue to expand," he declared. "Democracy is a vital, even evolutionary force. It exists as an expression of the basic human drive lot freedom...
...life in the small farming hollows, coal mines and river towns of his native West Virginia hills. He evokes on a smaller scale, a local world as nuanced and distinctive as the Dublin of Joyce's Dubliners: the region itself with its hills, rivers, fogs, and wildlife, is a vital presence. Pancake constantly includes owls, opossums, and snakes, ironweed and sycamores: even buried bones and fossils in describing the lives he portrays. The situations of his strong. reticent, and trapped characters embody the unique milieu, but the problems they struggle with transcend it to reach universality...
...Woodrow Wilson papers, there is a photo showing three phones on Wilson's desk. Frank Freidel, biographer of Franklin Roosevelt, reminded them that Benjamin Harrison said it was beneath the President's dignity to answer a telephone.* The relationship between Reagan and his wife Nancy was absolutely vital in understanding his presidency, said Morris' wife Sylvia, herself a biographer (Edith Kermit Roosevelt). Keep the private letters and notes, she advised. The Reagans' marriage seems unusually strong at a time when the national norm seems the opposite. Devotion shapes history...
...produced a generation with little or no historical perspective. In the eyes of West German youth who cannot remember the cold war or the Berlin airlift or the Korean War, there is really not much to distinguish between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. As a result, the vital Atlantic Alliance is sometimes questioned or even naively perceived as a fading and largely unnecessary relic...