Word: dears
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...somehow, because this is my Government and I expected it to be noble and above all, honest. Sure, rising prices bother me, but in Watergate we're talking about something far more important than pocketbook issues: the integrity of the Government. This is something that I hold very dear. I'm a flag waver...
Jackie called out to a roomful of the clan. "What do you mean, we?" Ethel answered, cutting her cold. Nurse Dallas recalls that the next day Jackie asked her about her own lonely years as a widow and spent the day walking to "all the familiar places that were dear to her and the President." Later Jackie laid her cheek on Joseph Kennedy's hand and whispered, "You'll always know I love you, won't you, Grandpa?" Not long after, Jackie married...
...Dear President...
Amin saved his most extraordinary performance of the week for later. After dismissing his chastised guests, he composed a rambling cable to Richard Nixon, who had ordered a phase-out of U.S. aid to Uganda in response to the expulsion of the country's Asians. "My dear brother," Amin wrote, "it is quite true that you have enough problems on your plate, and it is surprising that you have the zeal to add on fresh ones." Amin then ticked off some of the "problems": racial strife in the U.S., Viet Nam, the ITT fiasco in Chile, and, of course...
...tidy studies. Words like hubris (head-spinning pride) and catharsis (purgation by pity and terror) begin to assume a certain noble abstractness. A sense of transcendental symmetry emerges, and on cue, a stately chorus preaches its final sermon of moderation to all those really excessive heroes. "Greek tragedy, my dear, decorum," Jean Genet wrote sarcastically in The Blacks. "The ultimate gesture is performed offstage...