Word: diversionism
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But midway through Romano's tenure, the PBHA executive board splintered in a bitter debate over a staff member's attempted diversion of $150 to the campaign of Cambridge politician and PBHA alumnus, Kenneth E. Reeves '72. The conflict soon expanded into a test for Romano's boundless optimism and...
It is a nice diversion: a punitive hullabaloo, casting the NEA as the patron, if not of Commies, then of blasphemers, elitists and sickos. The arts grant becomes today's version of the Welfare Queen's Cadillac. And if the NEA is trashed or even dismantled in the process, so...
The challenge of remaking Peru has taken a toll on Vargas Llosa's writing. Aside from a brief erotic novel, In Praise of My Stepmother (1989), a book that Vargas Llosa considers a "diversion" and in which he devotes rapturous pages to the joys of a woman's bottom, he...
Unless the legal bickering over Executive privilege becomes protracted, Reagan may face imminent disclosure of his mysterious jottings, made in leather-bound notebooks. To date, only two of his closest aides have seen the original diary. The few attorneys who have examined excerpts say they contain no Iran-contra bombshells...
In a decision that could throw a President's records into the courtroom for the first time since Watergate, U.S. District Court Judge Harold Greene ruled last week that Ronald Reagan must turn over portions of his private diaries to his onetime National Security Adviser John Poindexter. In Greene's...