Word: yesteryears
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...complexities of cryptography and trade jargon (dry clean: to determine whether one is under surveillance; pianist: a clandestine radio operator; swallow: Russian term for a female agent assigned to seduce a target; raven: the male counterpart of a swallow). Beyond these terms are detailed entries about notable spies of yesteryear (Daniel Defoe, Christopher Marlowe), as well as those of more recent vintage (Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, Whittaker Chambers, Kim Philby, Anthony Blunt, Guy Burgess, Donald Maclean, Jonathan Pollard...
...sense, there's no point in quibbling with the star's performance; nobody else that I know of could do such a show, and deLima did it well, with humor and grace. Like Winsome Brown of yesteryear (our short institutional memory allows no lasting monument to her toothy glory), she is the rare college performer who has the confidence and power to go it all alone...
...would be popular topics. What's striking is the sheer intensity of Forbes' obsession. Since 1988, Forbes has written at least 65 pieces that urge tax cuts, moan about taxes here and abroad, look back with anger on tax hikes past or hail great tax cuts and cutters of yesteryear. No fewer than 45 columns, meanwhile, give lectures on the need for stable money, preferably achieved by returning to a gold standard, and berate the Federal Reserve and other financial authorities for assorted crimes against currency. By contrast, just a handful of Forbes' columns discuss welfare reform or returning power...
...Choices of the Heart: The Margaret Sanger Story." About: Birth-control activist. No, no, it didn't come under fire merely because it mentioned contraceptives. The Center blasted this movie because it "equates yesteryear's pro-contraception crusade with today's pro-abortion movement." Gee. Don't know where the movie makers got that one from. No antiabortion group these days would ever lump contraception and abortion together. Never. Given that Margaret Sanger, the first major birth-control activist, founded Planned Parenthood, the birth-control/abortion link seems like a fairly logical progression from either a conservative or liberal stance...
...Schama? Author of iconoclastic, groundbreaking studies of the French Revolution (Citizens) and the Netherlands during its 17th century Golden Age (The Embarrassment of Riches), Schama is one of those rare, imaginative historians who do more than impose order on the known past. He introduces readers to a kind of yesteryear they never dreamed existed...