Word: winstone
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...happy ending, but the value of the show did not lie in that optimistic outcome: The Crisis Game depicted as never before how Presidents and their advisers make policy. The particulars of the crisis smacked of reality, and the escalating tension felt authentic too. "It unfolded spontaneously," says Winston Lord, a veteran of four Administrations who played the part of National Security Adviser. "I was really impressed with how much it was like the real process...
Tens of millions have read it, in 62 languages: the story of Winston Smith, a minor bureaucrat in the totalitarian state of Oceania. War with the world's two other superpowers, Eurasia and Eastasia, is constant, although the pattern of hostilities and alliances keeps changing. Smith works at the Ministry of Truth, rewriting old newspaper stories to conform to current Party ideology. He uses the official language, Newspeak, a version of English being pared down to make unorthodox opinions impossible to conceive. Privacy has vanished. Waking and sleeping, Smith and all Party members are observed by two-way telescreens...
Retta and Charles Gray Winston-Salem...
...solemnity and mythmaking amusing, and hopelessly overdone. His intellectual style was sardonic and self-aware: wonderful lights of satire played across it. If he sometimes labored hard at being a hero, or seeming a hero (before his election in 1960, he listened intently to recordings of Winston Churchill's speeches, picking up the grand rhythms of the language), he knew the limitations of everything, including himself. His instruments were sensitive to the bogus. He might even have had some mordant crack to make about that Eternal Flame...
Incumbent Saundra Graham and challenger Winston C. Forde did not file statements in the city clerk's office before the 5 p.m. deadline. City Clerk Paul Healy said that the two candidates will not be penalized because a grace period is included in the state...