Word: dwelled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Nixon, a self-certified geopolitician--wonder where he got that from?--has set himself too lofty a task to dwell on past squabbles. He is warning us against ourselves, hoping against hope that we will slough off our guilt, indecision and blithe good nature and gear ourselves for the ultimate showdown at the OK Corral. After all, we are told...
...those who surrounded him afterwards; leading the life of the writer and traveller from the moment the finished medical school, then, may have paralyzed his work. Drawing from his own life, he could examine only the concerns of a writer, socialite, and traveler, much as pop singers today dwell incestuously, in their lyrics, on singers and singing...
Undershaft vows to win daughter and suitor over. He visits Barbara's soup kitchen shelter and proves with an open checkbook that he can bribe the poor and buy the Army, which desolates Barbara. He then invites everyone to his munitions plant, where the workers dwell in a model city. From generation to generation the Undershaft inheritance can only go to a foundling, and Cusins qualifies. Moralistically sniffish, Cusins resists Undershaft's blandishments until the cagey old dialectician storms, "Dare you make war on war?" Cusins succumbs, vowing to arm the common man against "the lawyers, the doctors...
...experts' major complaint is that the authors dwell on personalities while slighting substance. Though the portraits of the Justices generally ring true, the authors occasionally indulge in some low blows. At one point, the book suggests that Burger, who clearly is the clerks' least favorite Justice, cares little for the disadvantaged because he instructs his own clerks to spend less time working on the often scrawled, and rarely persuasive, petitions for hearings submitted by poor people. What the authors do not say is that Burger had this work, once done only by the Chief Justice's aides...