Word: badness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...response to all this from Washington has been low-key and reassuring. While the Soviets wring their hands, pound their fists and wag their fingers, officials of the Reagan Administration shake their heads wearily but indulgently. Soviet-American relations are not all that bad, they say. Nor, the Administration implies, should they be all that good. The two nations are, after all, fundamentally and irreconcilably at odds over how their own societies-and indeed the planet itself-should be run. Détente was, in that sense, unnatural...
Finally, note American officials, the Soviets are playing American domestic politics. By repeatedly proclaiming, and last week dramatizing, how bad relations are, the Politburo is trying to influence the way the American electorate answers the Democrats' inevitable question: "Are you living in a safer or more dangerous world today than you were four years ago?" By pulling out of the Olympics six months before Election Day, the Soviets may be calculating that they can cast an important vote as charter members of the Anybody but Reagan Club...
...Reagan Administration has made a bad situation worse in two ways: first, by convincing the Soviet leaders that the U.S. no longer accepts military parity as the basis for relations with Moscow; second, by challenging the legitimacy of the Soviet regime, calling the U.S.S.R. an "evil empire" doomed to fail. The fact that these two themes have been muted of late in official American rhetoric does not mean that the Soviets believe they have been abandoned...
...almost the same rate if Hart gets nominated. Darden's polls reflect that Hart is no more able to be elected in the South than Mondale is. A Los Angeles Times poll published last week showed Reagan beating Mondale 53% to 41%. But the numbers were just as bad for Hart. He would lose to the President...
...point to make about them. But he has nothing to say." Vidal twitted Frederick Forsyth for piling facts into "freight-car sentences." He was kinder to Herman Wouk and The Winds of War, praising the historical research, quoting a description of F.D.R. and announcing: "This is not at all bad, except as prose...