Word: bullshit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sociobiology as "genetic capitalism"?an attempt to defend the current structures of Western society as natural and inevitable. Jerome Schneewind, a philosopher at Manhattan's Hunter College, calls it "mushy metaphor . . . a souped-up version of Hobbes." Harvard Evolutionary Biologist Richard Lewontin is earthier; he thinks sociobiology is "bullshit...
...intelligence-gathering agencies, including those in the military services, on specific topics. The agencies' main aim has been to assess Soviet strategic capabilities and, more significant, Russia's intentions. These reports were read critically by Kissinger, who sometimes penciled in the margin "flabby" or "bureaucratic bullshit." They are still held in low esteem at the White House...
First he started arguing, the innocent bullshit-kind of argument everyone has when he or she is a freshman and wants to reform America's social conscience instead of reading for Gov 30. Paco played his role to the hilt, all Viva Zapata and Man of La Mancha and Impossible Dream--socialism, cliches and stereotypes and fiery speeches like he'd seen out in California. He picked his favorite target, the other Chicano on the floor--a rich kid from L.A. whose father owned a big factory that built tanks and had put him on the company's board...
Without notice on Nov. 2, 1975, President Ford fired Schlesinger, ostensibly because Ford felt uneasy in the presence of his harsh Defense Secretary. "Bullshit," says Schlesinger. The real reason, he suspects, was his constant questioning of Kissinger's détente policies. After his ouster, Schlesinger passed up offers of high-paying positions in industry to become a visiting scholar at Johns Hopkins University and settled into a cramped office in Washington. ("I have never done anything for money.") A request from then Candidate Jimmy Carter for advice on defense policy led to his present...
...Hogwash and bullshit," says New York Psychiatrist Judianne Densen-Gerber, J.D., M.D., who has, along with her two degrees, her career and her four children, some very definite opinions about a woman who would subscribe to those lines at the end of Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew...