Word: bywords
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When Associate Editor Roger Rosenblatt was asked to write this week's story on the nation's capital city, he had no trouble at all identifying a central question: Why does America hate Washington? "It has become a byword for the country's problems," says Rosenblatt. "People abuse it, make fun of it, and presidential candidates campaign against it. You ask almost anyone in this country to tell you what's wrong, and he'll say Washington...
...became painfully clear at the Blackpool conference that Callaghan's celebrated skill for behind-the-scenes persuasion was no longer working. The comforting byword "Jim will fix it" had turned into hostile criticism of "Jim's fudge and nudge." Callaghan came to politics out of the trade union movement and had always counted on the union leaders, who tend to be nonideological, to keep the party on a comfortable center-socialist course. But this time the unions could not fall in behind him because they were beset by their own left-right split-shop-floor militants vs. traditionalist...