Word: chosen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...always reminding you that he ran your life for five eminently regrettable years. Still, until recently, there was always an element of "fun" in the game--every time Dick popped out from under his California rock, you could, hoe him right back under again with a few well-chosen comments about the world's most powerful un-indicated co-conspirator, and all that. It was all good clean fun, with a generously self-righteous flair. Richard Nixon, whipping boy for the soul of America, actually did some good those four years. The man was a sparring partner for a nation...
THESE INCIDENTS and stories might just as well have been chosen randomly, for there was enough bad news in Saturday's paper to fill this page and about nine others. And while there is no common source of all these tragedies, they all exemplify the daily tragedy that has become America. It is a system beyond anyone's control, slowly consuming itself like a cooling star. It will continue, of course--nothing can overwhelm the combined forces of inertia and entrenchment, at least not now--and improvement seems hardly likely...
...opening date had been chosen with care: exactly 30 years after fiercely independent Yugoslavia was expelled from Joseph Stalin's Cominform for what became known as "Titoism." Many things have changed since then, but not the enduring presence of Yugoslav President Josip Broz Tito himself. Last week, as 2,300 delegates from the Balkan federation's League of Communists and observers from 63 foreign Communist parties (including the Soviet Union's) met in Belgrade for the country's eleventh national party congress, the official four-day agenda seemed of secondary importance. Overshadowing everything was the figure...
...Prime Minister's chosen date for clearing up the constitutional tangle is significant. By then, Lévesque, who was elected in a stunning upset in 1976, will have to ask the voters for a new mandate for his Parti Québécois government. By then also, Lévesque will have asked the voters, in a promised referendum, whether they favor separate status for the province. (If asked directly whether they favor independence, Quebeckers are expected to turn down the option decisively.) The combative Levesque, who considers Canada's 111-year-old confederation...
Trouble between father and son is not new. Back in 1972 Herbert yanked Garner Ted off the tube and sent him into exile. Insiders later reported that the son was guilty of adultery. But by 1974 Herbert announced that the returned Garner Ted was his divinely chosen successor, a transfer of power that he likened to King David's handing the reins to Solomon (I Chronicles: 28). Angry schism ensued. Dissidents charged that Garner Ted had not properly repented his adulteries, adding that other church sinners had not been treated so forgivingly...