Word: darkeness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...power, Richard Nixon stirred a pitcher of exquisitely dry martinis in the study of his Manhattan town house and addressed the topic of the moment. General Alexander Haig had just been rumored to be the top candidate for Secretary of State. Beneath the famous brows, Nixon's dark eyes shone. "I know Al Haig," he said. "He is one of the most ruthless, toughest, ambitious s.o.b.s I know. He'd make a great Secretary of State...
...Some dark clouds have begun to shadow even one of the few consistently bright spots in the economy: the steady wind-down in inflation. The inflation rate fell from 12% a year on the day that Reagan took office to outright deflation during March, when the purchasing power of the dollar actually inched fractionally upward. But last week consumer prices, which rose at an average annual rate of less than 2% in the first four months of the year, suddenly shot back up in May to a compound annual rate of 12.7%, pushed by increases in housing, food and energy...
...Watson plays a game of golf with which Jack Nicklaus-and no one else-is familiar. These two can look at each other now and see where they are going and where they have been. In the 1977 British Open at Turnberry, Scotland, Nicklaus and Watson crossed a dark moor together and came out Watson and Nicklaus. To Jack's 68, 70, 65 and 66, Tom shot 68, 70, 65 and 65, erasing any doubts about whether his Masters victory that year was a fluke, and taking over as the best golfer in the world. Watson has been...
This is hardly encouraging news for the G.O.P. as it prepares for the November elections. The public is sour and skeptical, and what limited hopes it has are plainly invested in Reagan himself. The big question now is how long the President can fly above the dark clouds without crashing. -By John F. Stacks
...rummages in closets for these revelations. Kierkegaard's fancy about being a police spy is a dark, shiny little item: a melancholic's impulse toward sneaking omnipotence, the intellectual furtively collaborating with state power, committing sins of betrayal in police stations in the middle of the night. It is not far from another intellectual's fantasy: Norman Mailer once proposed that Eugene McCarthy, the dreamboat of the late '60s moderate left, might have made an ideal director of the FBI. McCarthy agreed. But of course, McCarthy had a sardonic genius for doubling back upon his public...