Word: wakeful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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LAST WEEK's funeral for the New Deal was hard to watch, and not simply because of what transpired. The country wanted a tax cut, and on Ronald Reagan's terms. It got it--democracy in action. But what hurt was that the Democrats came to this wake too, and they showed little respect for the dead, who, after all, were their...
...only really change at election time, and there's not another one of those until the fall of 1982. Fighting for the sake of fighting can only squander whatever energy liberals still have; instead, the paramount task must be finding ways to start all over. There has been a wake, but that doesn't mean there can't be a christening before too long...
...brilliant palette of Dacron sail stands taut in the breeze, while below it the bright twin pontoons slice the sea into a foaming, sun-dazzled wake. As the breeze quickens, one of the pontoons flies free of the water, bringing whoops of excitement from the boat's two occupants...
...anniversary with the paper coincides with its closing: "For once we beat the Post on the big story-damn it to hell." Editor Murray Gart (who had observed earlier: "I'm as intensely proud of the staff of the Star as any editor can be") presided over a wake. Staffers sipped champagne while checking the cluttered newsroom bulletin board for job openings at other papers. Late in the afternoon, a message from Katharine Graham, board chairman of the Washington Post Co., was tacked up: "Dear Murray," she wrote, "my heart is broken for you." On seeing the note, some...
Bernard Shaw is one of the few preachers whose sermons wake you up. The stage is his pulpit. It is also his concert hall, ballroom and battlefield...