Word: disavowing
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...product of a sane mind, ideas with which the author concurs--or whether they are lunatic ravings. It's a very convenient device for Percy. He can say controversial things about war, about Nazis and Jews, about other sensitive subjects and still leave room for himself to disavow then if a reader gets too offended. But in The Second Coming, Percy introduces a new sort of character--the genuine schizophrenic, not a mouthpiece for his own questionable ideas but a true dysfunctional. Allison, a post-shock-therapy mental hospital escapee, approaches the external world as if it were a book...
...President's presentation did not dispel the key issue of whether or not he had shown good judgment. Too many questions remained: 1) Why did he not do more to get Billy to break his Libya connection? 2) If Billy then persisted, why did the President not simply disavow his brother's connection with Libya? 3) At a time when he knew that Billy's work for Libya was under investigation by the Justice Department, why did he use Billy as a back-channel route to try to get Libya to lean on Iran to free...
Neither the non-candidate nor his aides seem to be encouraging or coordinating these efforts. Kennedy feels strongly that a direct challenge to Carter would seriously split the party, as Chairman White warns, but the draft efforts and his refusal to disavow, once and for all, his candidacy have already begun dividing Democrats. By his ambivalence, Kennedy is also helping to undermine Carter's political strength. Ironically, a weakened President will have trouble passing such an important measure as the SALT II treaty, which Kennedy himself favors. Although exaggerating Carter's problem, New York Senator Patrick Moynihan summed...
Perhaps the reason the ARCO Forum has provoked no uproar is that at Harvard, such an alliance seems so natural. But it is not too late to begin to change this situation. Students should demand that the Kennedy School disavow this alliance and the political bias it represents. The School should heed the Biblical dictum, "A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches," by returning the money and renouncing ARCO's name in order to restore...
...with the Khomeini regime in Iran: Publicly recognize the abdication of the Shah ("We have said we will work with the new government, but we have not said an awful lot about the guy sitting out there in Morocco"). Offer the new government technical, agricultural, industrial and educational aid. Disavow convincingly any thought of sponsoring a countercoup, still a subject of great worry to the Iranian revolutionaries. Replace U.S. Ambassador William H. Sullivan, who is thought to have been too close to the Shah. Train some of our State Department officers in Farsi "and send them over in waves...