Word: contrivedness
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No modern President could have been less equipped by nature for political life. Painfully shy, Nixon dreaded meeting new people. Fearful of rejection, he constructed his relationships so that a rebuff, if it came, would seem to have originated with him. Fiercely proud, he could neither admit his dependence on...
Another roadblock to Tinpec is the U.S., which has stockpiled 200,000 tons of the metal as a strategic reserve to be used in case of war. The tin was bought three decades ago for an average price of only $1.08 per Ib., and the General Services Administration in the...
But was the New Deal answer really successful? Did it work? Other scholarly experts almost uniformly praise and admire Roosevelt, but even the most sympathetic among them add a number of reservations. "The New Deal certainly did not get the country out of the Depression," says Columbia's William...
The Arkansas law had a surface plausibility: it merely required that if public schools teach the theories of "evolution science," they must also teach the theories of "creation science." But last week Federal Judge William Overton had little trouble determining that something constitutionally improper was going on under that surface...
IT HAS BECOME FASHIONABLE to make fun of Andy Rooney. It was only a matter of time, really, before the Saturday Night Lives and Second City Televisions started honing in on him. That carefully cluttered desk and contrived homespun drawl make him an almost irresistably easy target for parody. And...