Word: acidity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Henry Kissinger might well ponder the truism: it never rains, it pours. As if he did not face enough criticism, he will soon have to cope with two acid-etched studies of his Middle East shuttle diplomacy. One is The Arabs, Israelis and Kissinger by Edward R.F. Sheehan, excerpts from which will appear this week in the quarterly magazine Foreign Policy; Sheehan is a freelance writer and former State Department press officer who conducts Middle East seminars at Harvard's Center for International Affairs. The other is The Secret Conversations of Henry Kissinger by Israeli Journalist Matti Golan, which...
...income and highly educated, concerned with ecology (many "Friends of the Earth" are in Cambridge and Newton) and the scarcity of natural resources, but not overly interested in policies appealing to the masses, like jobs and prices. In short, it is the "elite liberal" formula that in another guise--acid, amnesty, abortion--led McGovern down the road to disaster...
...April 6, however, the traveling primary circus moves to New York, and Bayh contends that the acid test for liberals should come then. Bayh says that he has a strong organization in New York, and has put together more delegate slates there than any other liberal candidate. Now running scared, Bayh hopes to finish well enough in Massachusetts to continue on through to New York...
...political essays are less written than engraved with acid. He has railed constantly-and rather inconsistently-at an American electorate too stupid to choose proper leaders and at a capitalistic oligarchy that systematically cheats the common yeomanry. A litany developed: all people are innately bisexual (though not all choose to act it); the police persecute people for private preference and turn a blind eye to fat-cat criminality; the end is near...
Recombinant DNA molecule research involves transplanting bits of the genetic material, DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid), from one form of life to another. Genes of plants, animals, and even tumors may be grown in bacteria in this kind of research...