Word: bogeymen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...matter, are personalities.) But the emotions Bush is stirring up in the name of American patriotism are ugly and -- dare I say it -- un- American. What unites the pledge nonsense, the furlough business, the attacks on the American Civil Liberties Union, the scare stories about a race of mythic bogeymen called liberals is an effort to induce a fever of "us" vs. "them" majoritarianism...
...culture we live in. To the secretary, competition from foreign systems and beliefs is a direct assault on America, and universities must be responsible for its defense. However, he ignores the real danger--graduates will not successfully represent the United States if they see foreign cultures as dark, undefined bogeymen...
...priorities involve undeniable risks. One threat is to the benign image of the bank. By tying loans to policy improvements, the World Bank will almost inevitably be tarred in the domestic debates of debtor nations. In just that fashion, the IMF has now become one of the prime bogeymen of Third World politics because of its program of enforced austerity. Warns James Conrow, a Deputy Assistant Treasury Secretary: "The World Bank is going to get hit with charges of political insensitivity, just like...
...enforce his rule, Duvalier created the thuggish Tonton Macoutes, Creole for bogeymen. Swaggering through the streets, they terrorized the population, extorted money and tortured and killed untold numbers. In January 1971, Papa Doc decreed that his tubby son Jean-Claude, 19, would succeed him in the presidency. Haitians were called to the polls to ratify the succession of the ) moon-faced playboy, whose interests seemed to revolve around women and fast cars. According to government figures, Baby Doc won the plebiscite handily...
With Different Seasons the latest in the author's string of best-sellers, King puts forth the effort. Technically, the book is a collection of four novellas, each written in separate periods following the completion of specific novels. In this book, King cuts the bogeymen, employs a first-person narrative, and restricts the imagery...