Word: whirlwinding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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WITHIN THE WHIRLWIND by Eugenia Ginzburg; Translated by Ian Boland Harcourt Brace Jovanovich; 423 pages...
...member, President Bok announced that Harvard would pass up the risky, if potentially lucrative, foray. Although his decision seemed to satisfy the majority of the University community and especially the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, the flurry of activity leading up to Bok's thumbs-down stirred up a whirlwind of misunderstanding, resentment and other negative feelings. Six months later, the dust has yet to settle...
...rapidly. The Reagan Administration read it to mean that the country will do anything the President wants it to do. But the mandate was to rid the country of an ineffective President and to bring the economy under control." Reported Massachusetts Congressman Gerry Studds, a liberal Democrat, after a whirlwind series of meetings in his relatively conservative Cape Cod district: People are saying, 'Hey, wait a minute. This is not what I voted...
...true measure of my effectiveness is going to be what we accomplish. When the report card is rendered, it's going to be rendered on substance." So said Secretary of State Alexander Haig as he began a whirlwind, nine-day trip through the Middle East and Europe. As he spoke, Haig was still smarting from his confrontation with the White House over the selection of Vice President George Bush as "crisis manager," and his ill-received "I'm in control" television appearance shortly after the assassination attempt against President Ronald Reagan. Thus Haig looked upon his first overseas...
...bulk of New-Found-Land consists of a monologue by the younger official that transports the audience from its evening-long sojourn in Britain to a whirlwind tour of the U.S.A. As Arthur, Barry Mann must sustain a vividness of vision and intensity of delivery over the 15-minute speech, as he drags the audience from New York to Chicago to San Francisco, from one cliche of 1930s America to another--Hell's Kitchen, Chicago newsmen, dustbowls, Okies and all. With a wild eye and a remarkable range of voices, Mann holds the audience's attention and summons into...