Word: alienates
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...stop speaking disparagingly of Kennedy and to take conciliatory steps that might make the Senator an ally in the campaign against Ronald Reagan. Thus there was no response when Kennedy attacked Carter as a "clone of Ronald Reagan" and said that the Administration's economic policies were "alien to everything the Democratic Party stands for." Rosalynn Carter's anger vibrated through the White House corridors when Joan Kennedy archly told a reporter that she was better equipped than Rosalynn for life in the White House because she was a "sophisticated lady" and held a master's degree...
...Real War (Warner Books; 341 pages; $12.50). This impassioned call to arms expresses Nixon's combative view of the world. In his way, Nixon has updated Machiavelli's The Prince and written a primer for power politics. "World leadership," he warns, "requires something in many ways alien to the American cast of mind. It requires placing limits on idealism, compromising with reality, at times matching duplicity with duplicity, and even brutality with brutality...
Munich's Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger declared from an Oberammergau pulpit, "AntiSemitism has no part in this play." Saying that anti-Semitism can be brought on "by talking about it," he added: "I beg of everybody, particularly our Jewish friends, to stop reproaching us with an anti-Semitism totally alien to the historic roots and content of this play...
...former Shah of Iran. He assured the Copts that they had nothing to fear. Said Sadat: "Our Islam is not [the Ayatullah] Khomeini's Islam. Khomeini's revolution is not an Islamic revolution because murder, vengeance, and tampering with the bodies of the dead are alien to Islam." To show that he was serious about his promise of establishing a more democratic form of government, he announced the abolition of martial law, which has technically been in effect since the British imposed...
There are real surprises here, timed adroitly and written with fine economy. But in an alien context, they merely reaffirm James as a mystery writer. Hers is a tough, literal mind, an exacting memory that knows where files are kept and where administrators hide their short cuts. The free-floating menace and dread in the novels of Diane Johnson or Beryl Bainbridge do not suit James because - like a classic mystery writer - she pins down her characters. Innocent Blood is full of cold people who have too little to do. One lays down the book half-satisfied, but with...