Word: cavil
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...behind the foreign policy thing. We have a government of guys who went to the same schools and who have shaped our ideas of what is right or wrong. Up until Vietnam, most of us and certainly the entire media bought these views without any kind of cavil...
Hirshhorn's instinct for painting seems to have been weaker than for sculpture. There, nobody could cavil at the major works he has supplied Washington-the Giacomettis, the Daumiers, at least some of the 15 Moores, Rodin's Burghers of Calais and stupendous Balzac, Picasso's Baby Carriage, and the great series of Matisse's Backs of a Woman, to name only...
...saddest days of my life." Many, like Georgia Party Chairman Robert J. Shaw, wept. John J. McCloy, an elder among New York Republicans, called the Nixon speech "a dignified statement, a dignified exit," adding: "We shouldn't expect any more than what it contained; we shouldn't cavil at it now." After watching the Nixon speech in California, Governor Ronald Reagan, who had continued to support the President until only a day earlier, said that he felt Nixon had made "the right decision for the country...
...unanswerable, though they reach toward one of the crucial is sues of Viet Nam - the extent to which a democracy can wage a war not supported by the national will, and the extent to which such a will can be manipulated. In any case Historian Pogue proves beyond cavil that George Catlett Marshall was that relative rarity in military history, the right man in the right place at the right time. ∙Mayo Mohs
...ended after 45 minutes in a foofaraw symptomatic of public TV's major ailment in the U.S. Since PBS and its producers get much of their financing from the Federal Government, and since this funding is not insulated from querulous annual scrutiny, the network quakes at the least cavil from the Administration or Congress. Last week, after a complaining letter from J. Edgar Hoover, PBS timorously ordered the deletion of a Dream Machine segment that accused the FBI of hiring operatives to foment bombing in order to entrap left-wing coconspirators. The material was not daringly muckraking in that...