Word: animus
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...reply, the president allowed that "there seems to be too much just loose talk going around, but it has been exaggerated out of all reality." He continued, "There is no animus, personal animus, and there is no bickering or back-stabbing going on." Then, the punch line: "We're very happy group." Members of the press corp could not stifle their laughter at that remark...
...test of how revolutionary the left was, and how far they would go. But "few were ready to die, so the decade reached its end." Viorst says that by this time, the country had reached agreement that America had blundered in entering the war. But the animus of the Movement, vibrant in all of Viorst's heroes, was not the nemesis of one war, of one minority--it was the nemesis of an entire machine, the ideals and values of America which caused the country to blunder into war, oppress peoples, and poison the environment. The Movement...
Sanchez's animus stems from the puritanical morality of the ex-junkie. There is nothing so tedious as a converted man and his born-again morality...
...there first... had on occasion crossed the line into vindictiveness so as to keep the felled foe from getting up." Perhaps a Quaker idealism, the conviction, as Anderson says, that military people "should regard war as a catastrophe, not an opportunity," helps explain Pearson's unrelenting animus toward Douglas MacArthur, George Patton and James Forrestal. He thought them dangerous men. Back in the '30s MacArthur had sued Pearson for close to $2 million. Pearson got out of the libel suit only after turning up a Eurasian chorus girl whom MacArthur had discarded, and agreeing not to publish...
...editors' new self-consciousness is that some of them have grown sensitive about how often the press cries wolf over the First Amendment. It's no secret that Nixon's Gang of Four on the Supreme Court bears little love for the press; an even deeper animus seems to reside in President Kennedy's appointee, Byron White. (He's not grateful either when newspaper accounts invariably recall that Mr. Justice White was once better known to you and me as Whizzer White, football star.) But each court attempt to redefine the press's responsibility...