Word: badness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...displeasure over the installation of liberal Bishop David Jenkins. But why would God cause such destructive retribution on a temple of worship? Should not the heaven-sent brand have struck Jenkins' own house, thus leaving no doubt as to God's intent? Perhaps God was having a bad...
...Everywhere I go," says John Dean, the former White House counsel who first publicly tied Nixon to the Watergate coverup, "I hear people say that maybe Nixon wasn't all that bad. The passage of time is one reason. People have softened their views considerably." Another reason is that Nixon has spent the past ten years tirelessly and skillfully campaigning for rehabilitation, for public acknowledgment of what he considers his deserved status as elder statesman. Says Dean: "Richard Nixon is running for ex-President." That he should campaign with some success hardly surprises veteran Nixon-watchers like John Sears...
...meters, the fatigued American downgeared slightly and blasted up the final grade, rising on his pedals and throwing up his arms as he crossed the line, barely a cycle length ahead of Bauer. Of the temperamental Grewal, Eddie B. shrugged: "Sometimes he's good, sometimes he's bad and sometimes he's crazy...
...posturing. Mailer is too much the sheltered child-artist to use his art to say specifically what he thinks of the Big Bad World. He is like a fourth grader who will show but not tell. Authors need not supply a moral to every story, but Mailer is not even responsible or interested enough to include different points of view among his characters. Thus the social scope of the novel is harshly limited--which is a great pity, seeing that he can work with broad canvasses. In his reflexive fear of being thought simple-minded or today. Mailer is reduced...
...some of their schemes to, for example, reform the military or revive growth; their approach often borders on extreme arrogance. The military reformers talk with some merit, about the necessity for liberals to take defense matters more seriously and they exhort the Army to improve cohesion and morale, never bad advice. But they they ignore the long stream of institutional interests in the subject that has been stymied simply by the normal difficulty of getting something changed in the armed forces, not necessarily because of the stupidity writers often impute to the officer corps. In much the same way, economic...