Word: bloodlessness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...federal budget cuts proposed by the President look crisp and bloodless when summarized in tidy charts and statistical tables, but it is a very long way from the Latinate language of program descriptions to the bumpy realities of people and places those Washington moneys touch. Though inevitably some were born of boondoggling and hornswoggling in the give and take of American politics, most federal programs were conceived with the best of intentions, created to advance goals on which much of America agreed. To feed the hungry. To heal the sick. To train the jobless. To enable the nation...
...dream. It had never been, for them, a goal, a destination, a frontier for them to explore as they explored new levels of themselves. It was just like Saudi Arabia Indonesia, East Texas, the North Sea--a place under which oil happened to be. They were an occupying army, bloodless mercenaries...
...assuage your conscience. You will not win this stage of the quarrel. Libertarians, many of them, wear dollar signs on their ties. They read Ayn Rand, and think happiness is this valley where everybody makes profits--unless they're unfit and hence lose money. Don't bother calling them bloodless assholes, because they think that being bloodless is a virtue. They may even accuse you of being captive to your emotions; good libertarians don't have any emotions, except rage that they're being kidnapped, stolen from, raped...
While debunking the hardened-untruths of others, Harrison always remains self-deprecating, never entrenching herself in deep battle lines of argument. Unfeeling, bloodless righteousness has been the devil of her life; she is always on guard for it in herself. She is sincere when she says she feels "like a hard-faced bitch," when she can't find much sympathy for the woman in a consciousness-raising course who's always trying to draw attention to her domestic melodrama. And in her brilliant indictment of Didion she goes out of her way to be fair, whole-heartedly praising some aspects...
Finally the military took matters into its own hands. Shortly after midnight last Friday, tanks, armored personnel carriers and ground troops fanned out through Turkey's capital city, surrounding government buildings and setting up roadblocks. In a bloodless coup, a National Security Council, composed of six generals, replaced the democratically elected government of Premier Süleyman Demirel. Evren, 62, a political moderate who heads the junta, said in a radio announcement that the army had moved to prevent "followers of fascist and Communist ideologies, as well as religious fanatics, from destroying the Turkish Republic...