Word: animus
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that the very Washington columnists who have enthusiastically chronicled the diminution of public trust in Congress and the presidency are themselves suffering from the current animus toward Washington-knows-best. More charitably, editors don't think that any Washington columnist, no matter how energetic and wise, can be knowledgeable and reflective on important matters three times a week. So for their Op-Ed pages, editors now look around for speeches or articles by specialists to cover many subjects. "The Washington column is over the hill a little bit," the Chicago Tribune's editor Clayton Kirkpatrick believes. "The world...
...endeavor and transforming the society in ways that nobody can quite foresee. Writing in a new bimonthly magazine, Regulation, published by the conservative American Enterprise Institute in an effort to keep track of federal rulings, Social Critic Irving Kristol argues that many of the zealous regulators have an "ideological animus against the private economic sector. They are inclined to believe that a planned economic system would create a superior way of life for all Americans. They detest the individualism so characteristic of a free society...
Considering the animus that still exists toward the press, it is surprising how universal is the agreement that in the forthcoming debates, Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter should be cross-questioned by those paragons of impartiality, journalists. In more paranoid times, anchor men were accused of covertly liberal inflection, and the rise of David Brinkley's eyebrows came under particular suspicion. John Chancellor once locked himself in his bathroom and tried to read a piece of copy before the mirror in ways that would give it different slants. He says he never finished the experiment because each time...
...have their obligations (a college thesis could be written about how Woodward and Bernstein, or Theodore H. White, reveal their most useful sources by the praise they bestow upon them in passing). Despite good Washington connections, Evans/Novak usually give a one-legged performance, lacking balance. They early developed an animus toward Jimmy Carter and reported so many hidden obstacles in his way that if Carter had had to overcome them all, his nomination would have been even more impressive than it was. The Democratic Convention that others described as Carter-dominated, they found controlled by "left-of-center labor leaders...
...James-Schuyler scene is typically Vidalian: a bright, sparkling surface charged with the animus of estrangement. The same note echoes through all of his writings...