Word: drumbeat
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...currently fashionable to look down our noses at the late 70's, when students are supposed to have sold out their ideals to the almighty dollar. Time magazine and its attendant sycophantic competitors are fond of telling us that a decade ago students began to march to the drumbeat of the selfishness song, which goes something like: "No more sweaty rallies, no more LSD: Society owes a turbo Porsche to me, me, me." Even if we accept this colossal generalization with its implicit comparison to our generation, we must still wonder whether our immediate forebears weren't more honest than...
...form of a conciliatory foreign policy address. A few days later, Secretary of State George Shultz met with Gromyko in Stockholm to feel out the Soviets' receptivity to a more flexible strategic missile-limitation plan. The meeting was unproductive. Worse still, the Kremlin kept up a steady drumbeat of harsh anti-Reagan rhetoric...
...that state has India's richest, most fertile land, the Sikhs still felt their portion was too small compared with that of neighboring Haryana, the state created at the same time for the Hindus. Therefore, the Akali Dal Party, the political arm of the Sikhs, began an insistent drumbeat of peaceful protest. In 1973 the Akalis passed a resolution setting out various religious and political demands, among them that Punjab's capital, Chandigarh, be made a Sikh capital exclusively, and Amritsar a holy city...
Adding to his drumbeat of nervous-making adjectives ("unsteady," "inexperienced," "naive"), Mondale last week called Hart "uncertain, delayed and confused" on arms control, the "central issue of our time." Hart had only embraced a freeze on most nuclear weapons, Mondale charged, after first supporting a build-down proposal that would allow both sides to build new weapons if they destroyed more old ones. The build-down, insisted Mondale, was "totally at odds" with the freeze. Actually, Hart had carefully conceived positions on arms control until he began doing precisely what he accuses Mondale of doing, posturing for political purpose. Hart...
...Justice Department to throw its weight behind what is a largely spurious charge is nothing short of irresponsible. In a speech at Harvard earlier this week, Eleanor Holmes-Norton, chairman of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission under Carter, accused the Reagan Administration of "escalating the drumbeat" of reverse discrimination charges. Her attack is well grounded--the Administration has sided with whites claiming reverse discrimination in suits in Detroit, Memphis, and New Orleans in addition to the Boston and Birmingham cases...