Word: answer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...anyone who might remain unmoved feel like a Philistine and a bigot. At the outset he resorts to the sophomore's trick of putting all possible objections into the mouths of nitwits. An antsy cameraman asks rather perceptively, "What was so special about your childhood?" Drach's answer, "It was mine," is intended to disarm, but only reinforces the question...
Under the chairmanship of New York's Richard Ottinger, a former Congressman who had been out of office for four years and thus was technically a freshly man again, they invited all the chair men to meet individually with them to answer questions about committee procedures and policy. "No one turned us down," reported Ottinger, who noted that he had never even met some of the formerly aloof chairmen in his previous six years in Congress. But now, figuratively hat in hand, the aging power brokers faced their upstart inquisitors...
...writing when compared with the lofty prose writers of The Federalist Papers, showed how far our literary standards have deteriorated. "The degradation of political discourse in America is bound to raise a disturbing question," we are told. "May it be...that such deterioration is inherent in democracy?" The answer: while meaning is most ruthlessly manipulated in Russia and China, in democracies where "the assault on language is piecemeal," intellectual freedom enables society to "redeem"language. To do so, in the political sphere at least, entails reasserting the relationship between words and "reality." The obligation for doing so rests with those...
...years of Government service, it has been his lot to contend secretly with the real enemies of the U.S., knowing that at any time he might be destroyed by suspicions and accusations that he could not fully answer, ones perhaps made by the very people he sought to protect...
...would dominate a Christian Democratic return to power? The answer is none other than Franz Josef Strauss, 59, the ham-fisted Bavarian political boss who has once again made a phoenix-like return from the political grave. From his base as leader of the C.S.U., Strauss has emerged after several years of political eclipse to become one of the most important power brokers in Bonn...