Word: comradeships
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...only remotely plausible arguments for PT are that it provides a social milieu for those who do not have the comradeship of prep school associations and that it may provide a compulsory break in study for those who drive themselves to overwork. It certainly seems a curious sort of year-long social mixer, and an equally curious way of protecting people from themselves. Perhaps there is something to this kind of defense, but even if proven, it would only have begun to justify the requirement. As it is, PT is nasty, brutish, and nowhere near short enough...
...troubles of the party tedious, and. in particular, he loathed the problem of patronage. The President never surrounded himself with assistants who could solve political problems with professional skill. Except in the case of certain members who happened to be proficient golfers, there has not been any true comradeship between the White House and the Republicans in Congress...
...Jack") Sensenbrenner, 57, campaigned for his fourth term in the typical give-'em-hell, revivalistic style that he calls "spizzerinctum." Typical spizzerinctum: "When you come to the end of the road, what you and I want to hear is the Great Scoutmaster reaching down the hand of comradeship and saying 'Come on up higher. You did a swell job down there on earth . . .' " By the time all the spizzerincta were spizzed out, Mayor Sensenbrenner was out of office. Winner, to everybody's surprise but his own, was lackluster Wallace Ralston Westlake, 52, independent Republican city council...
...Europe are voluntarily controlled to avoid provoking tariff quotas; export licenses are refused for inferior articles in an effort to upgrade the longstanding Japanese reputation for poor workmanship and imitative design. In his effort to convince the West that Japan deserves less suspicion and more comradeship, Kishi can boast that his nation is the most democratic in Asia, has the highest literacy rate, and possesses a competent work force whose real wages have risen 20% in the past five years...
...privilege itself, but privilege in the hands of those who had betrayed the revolution, who fed the country a "dogmatism . . . which corroded all ethical values." Scorned-as the author clearly felt that he and an entire nation had been scorned-his unnamed heroine retreats to the rough-hewn comradeship of the stage. After a triumphant performance in a theater crowded with her enemies, she collapses on her sofa in melodramatic tears, unable to solve the curt, inexorable questions that Djilas himself could not really answer: "Why? How? Whither...