Word: waning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...though, Kelman is not dangerous, merely irritating. Even conservatives would gasp at much of his analysis, and the heroics of Ian Fleming's secret agents are more believable. Anti-Communism is a profession on the wane, and Kelman had better make his money while...
...suspense and humor wane only when Sleuth's ambitious author. Anthony Shaffer, overshoots his thematic boundaries. Shaffer tries to make Sleuth a philosophical discussion of conflicting honesty and fantasy in his characters' self-images, but this serious speculation is distinctly out of place. At its best, from the writings of Arthur Conan Doyle to Agatha Christie, the genre has recounted imaginary adventures of imaginary people, largely, ignoring the problems of real life. Fortunately the play's simplistic message about seeing ourselves as we really are rarely interferes with the progress from clue to clue...
Some Administration stars are on the wane. Closest to fading is Peter Peterson, the highly influential Secretary of Commerce who negotiated trade agreements with Russia and Poland. Peterson ran afoul of the protective White House staff for precisely the reasons that others admired him: he was dynamic and freewheeling, and was in the process of building up an independent reputation out of key with the team consciousness in the White House. As an international-minded free trader, Peterson also clashed with John Connally, who speaks for economic nationalism. And in the last analysis, it is Connally, the skilled infighter...
...prestige of Phi Delta Kappa the nation's oldest fraternity for educators, is on the wane as it continues to deny admission to women...
Though the power and prestige of Governors are on the wane, the major parties still regard control of statehouses as an important measure of local strength. By that measure, the results were pretty much a standoff; despite some trading of ground in the 18 state contests, there was little change in the balance of gubernatorial power. Going into the election, the Democrats led the Republicans by 30 states to 20, and afterward the ratio remained substantially unchanged. The G.O.P. continued to trail in the overall total, but it still claimed most of the big states, despite an important setback...