Word: absolutist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...assured, but in the interim a mix of conservation and dirty energy--coal and nuclear electricity generation--are imperative, he insists. Neither right nor left has met the problem square on; it will take, he says, a realist unswayed by the dogma of free enterprise or the hypnosis of absolutist environmentalism. And perhaps, in this case, he is right; at any rate, he is credible, and his pronuclear argument is sounder than most...
Ronald Reagan's election is not the biggest source of despair--rather it is the confluence of the size of his victory, the triumph of other conservatives (especially a half-dozen Bible-believing absolutist senators), and the apparently terminal case of tax fever that felled even the residents of Massachusetts. And the results of last week's elections are not, by themselves, the heralds of Armageddon. Instead, they are proofs--compass checks--of trends a few years older. They demonstrate that the car has gone over the top of the roller coaster, that the nation is shrieking and waving...
Douglas' judicial philosophy was a relentless defense of individual rights. His nearly absolutist views on the subject brooked no debate. His preference, he admits, was for "creating precedent," not "finding it." If he does not describe the give and take of court procedures, it is probably because he held aloof from most of them. He quotes the observation of Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes: "Ninety percent of any decision is emotional...
...front of a duly impressed judge). And he's a true believer, the Oral Roberts of the freedom of speech. So what if he likes the press and relishes having all the liberals mad at him? He knows he is right; it's so comforting to be an absolutist, for it never even allows you to think of circumstances and deviations and morality...
...Absolutist that he is, he devises a plan "to settle the question of God once and for all." He will go into a labyrinthian mountain cave and simply sit until he receives a sign. What he gets instead is a toothache, which drives him out of hiding and into the care of Allison, a young schizophrenic who has escaped from a sanitarium and is living in a greenhouse right beneath the cave. Emerging from his vigil, Will Barrett goes through the glass roof and literally falls in love...