Word: bitterness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...compromise comes on the heels of a tumultuous year that included bitter public criticism by PBHA President Andrew J. Ehrlich '96-'97 of the appointment of Judith H. Kidd as the assistant dean for public service, and a threat by Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III to kick PBHA off campus...
...healthy culture. Still, it's fair to ask whether something as ideologically jumbled as the new politics of virtue can ultimately prove coherent. Can liberals and conservatives so easily embrace the same ideas without surrendering bedrock beliefs? Or, in fact, might a real moral recovery entail some bitter medicine for both...
...dirty little secret in the politics of virtue is that conservatives aren't vastly better at taking this sort of bitter medicine. Newt Gingrich, as is well known, left his first wife and their two daughters. Bob Dole left his first wife and their daughter. And both men, in classic male fashion, then married younger women. Does Republican moralist-in-chief Bennett think Dole and Gingrich, in this regard, are good? Does he think they're bad? He has never said. But if a take-no-prisoners crusade to restore the American family doesn't involve heaping shame on this...
...only the religious right that has grown frustrated with teacher-union tactics. Around the country, local officials complain about lengthy, bitter contract fights and union rules that make it nearly impossible to fire bad teachers. In Texas, for instance, a right-to-work state where the teachers' unions have limited clout, it could have taken 2 1/2 years to terminate an incompetent teacher until new legislation was passed last year. In New Jersey, where the New Jersey Education Association contributes more to local and state campaigns than any other organization, battles between the local school boards and the N.J.E.A. often...
...maybe Dole knew, maybe the polls and the consultants persuaded him, that this was too bitter a message to offer unsweetened. The children had become too spoiled to listen. That fact turned his speech, and the $74 million campaign that is about to unfold, into a study in paradox. In Verse 32, he told voters they had been insulted four years ago when they were told that material wealth was the only thing that mattered, as in "the economy, stupid." But by Verse 43, Dole was putting money on the table himself. If necessary, this father will pay his children...