Word: watcher
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With their usual savvy in separating reality from official propaganda, ordinary Russians seemed to recognize that the joint flight was as much a diplomatic exercise as a technological feat, and they were divided on its value. One launch watcher at the GUM store, Valery Gromov, a Moscow mathematician, suggested that the joint U.S.-Soviet mission might help "move aside the feelings of mistrust" on both sides. But another middle-aged Muscovite disagreed. "Everyone knows the political side of it," he grumped. "They have no need to talk about...
...least in the way she deals with it. In her earlier works, she has been caught up in the struggles of the main characters. Their growth has been partially obscured by the author's own involvement in it. Her involvement in this novel is defined: she is the watcher, and, although she understands Emily's growth, she stands back from it. She has already been through the struggle to achieve adulthood, and can only guide by example. While she has used an omniscient narrator in other books, the character's struggles have been her own, and their realism prevented resolution...
Despite the rash of Asian leaders forming links with Peking, a strong case can be made that the biggest loser of the Viet Nam War was Communist China and not, as it may at first have appeared, the U.S. One admittedly prejudiced senior China watcher in Washington puts it thus: "The removal of the relatively benign American presence from the southern flank of China has caused Peking a lot of worry. Hanoi's relations with China are uneasy. Soviet access to Southeast Asia-possibly a naval base at Cam Ranh Bay [site of the largest U.S. military installation during...
Rivlin already has much experience in analyzing budgets: as a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, she co-authored studies of the 1972, 1973 and 1974 budgets under the title Setting National Priorities. She has spent 18 years as a professional budget watcher, part of it as an Assistant Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, helping to plan Lyndon Johnson's Great Society programs...
...State was alive and well and not (as some reports have had it) dejected by recent diplomatic setbacks. In fact, while Kissinger was voluble and engaging at times, especially toward the end of the session, at other points he seemed ponderous and even petulant. Fairly typically, one longtime Kissinger-watcher, Brown University Historian Stephen Graubard, judged it "not a vintage" performance...