Word: blusterous
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Carter's approach to the Sandinistas failed to help the Nicaraguans achieve the kind of freedom for which so many of them fought and died. By contrast, Reagan's alleged "bristling militarism" and "single-minded devotion to force and bluster" have apparently induced the Sandinistas to at least go through the motions of an election and begin reform. The effect of U.S. pressure in prompting elections is obvious: in the first place, the Sandinistas' Marxist ideology denies the usefulness and even the possibility for real elections. And in the second place, any group with such a hold on all sources...
...probably too myopic to realize it. In Reaganworld, the only threatsto Central America during the President's tenure have been the Cuban and Soviet proxies ready to eat up our allies; these fears have been played up only because of the Administration's single-minded devotion to force and bluster as the lynchpins of its policy in the region. The Republicans brag that under their government "not one square inch" of territory has been lost to the Commies, but if they pursue their current course, they will more likely end up squandering their rapidly diminishing influence in the area...
...progress in negotiations between the superpowers may be in the near future, one comforting conclusion can be drawn from the historic Mondale-Gromyko meeting Thursday. Both participants approached the table with a soberness and professionalism befitting the major problems their countries must face--a welcome change from the bluster and ideological posturing that has emanated from both the White House and the Kremlin in the last few years...
...East offensive guard at Harvard in the 1960s.) Kim Stanley (who played Maggie in the 1958 London production of Cat) makes Big Mama a more sympathetically human figure than one has a right to expect. Only Rip Torn, as Big Daddy, seems miscast. He has the bluster but not the bombast of the aging tycoon, and his Southern accent contains a trace of irony that seems to emanate from the actor, not the character. This is a Medium-Size Daddy at best. Still, the play, and Lange, tower above the rest of an arid summer's TV offerings...
...Soviet bluster, some argue, may be little more than a negotiating tactic. This view is held by many in the Reagan Administration. By deliberately fostering an atmosphere of tension, the argument goes, the Kremlin might exact concessions it could not gain through diplomatic channels. Given Moscow's almost pathological antipathy for Reagan, the Soviets could also be trying to influence the outcome of the U.S. elections by allowing the Democrats to paint the President as a man not to be trusted with his finger on the nuclear button. One significant danger of the present situation, according to an American specialist...