Word: boundlessness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Destructive and irresponsible freedom has been granted boundless space. Society appears to have little defense against the abyss of human decadence, such as, for example, misuse of liberty for moral violence against young people, motion pictures full of pornography, crime and horror. It is considered to be part of freedom and theoretically counterbalanced by the young people's right not to look or not to accept. Life organized legalistically has thus shown its inability to defend itself against the corrosion of evil...
...Stone, L.H.D., journalist. For your monumental and legendary achievements as a journalist, for your grand erudition in literature, and for your boundless enthusiasm in classical thought and letters...
Quick reactions and boundless self-confidence are Weizman hallmarks. In the planning for the Israeli charge into Lebanon, it was Weizman's idea to create only a limited "security belt" close to Israel's border, and it was his idea later on in the operation to continue the plunge almost all the way to the Litani River, after it became clear that the Palestinians were putting up a hard fight and trouble was coming from the U.N. In the middle of the operation, Weizman explains with his characteristically dry understatement, "the rules had changed...
...does, the reader thinks, his eyes opened by Morgan's perception of Americans as "the true existentialists ... Anxiety is the price that must be paid for boundless opportunity, including the opportunity to cheat the system, and not everyone can handle it." But passion does not improve the reasoning process, and when the author supports his arguments with windy civics lectures and careless unravelings from U.S. history, he can be more provocative than illuminating. Cases in point include a lame paragraph that seeks to prove "a high incidence of breakdown among men and women in public life" by linking...
...legendary go-go banker. At just about that time, a mood of boundless growth infected Atlanta. Beginning in the late 1960s, the number of apartment building permits swelled 133% in three years; first-class hotel-room space doubled in 18 months; downtown office footage grew 30% in a single year. Lane, now 66 and retired, reflects: "It was a boom city that hadn't felt a recession since the war and thought it never would. And then all of a sudden in 1973 it happened...