Word: evils
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dominant rhetoric of Reagan's early years in office--grim warnings about the communist menace, invocations against the "evil empire" and denunciations of America's supposed "cave-in" to the Soviets during detente--has suddenly become passe...
After last year's revelation that Judge Douglas Ginsburg, President Reagan's brief nominee to the Supreme Court, had smoked marijuana, there was a parade of politicians confessing that they too had "experimented with" the evil weed. They all insisted that this was a youthful indiscretion that they deeply regretted, and they all were awarded little stars for courage and frankness. But where is the politician with the true courage to admit that he enjoyed smoking dope and does not especially regret...
...know Soviet leaders. He proposed a dubious and potentially destabilizing scheme for space-based defenses. In a speech that will be remembered long after he leaves office, he stooped to rhetorical depths not seen since the onset of the cold war, decrying the U.S.S.R. as the "focus of evil in the modern world . . . an evil empire." So what was the most conservative President of the modern age doing in the Grand Kremlin Palace, amid the zinc columns and gilt bronze chandeliers of the St. George Hall, smiling at the ruler of the "evil empire...
...ballplayer," he would later write, "a slump is a plague -- second only, perhaps, to the black death. And he is convinced that it is an evil designed just for him. I thought so too, until recently. After a game one night, an old friend -- a salesman -- dropped by for a visit. 'How's business?' I asked. 'Fine -- for everyone but me,' he moaned. 'I don't know what's wrong. I'm working just as hard as ever but selling nothing. It's gotten so bad that I'm convinced I won't make the sale even before I walk...
...painful drama to watch. Meese is not, at heart, an evil or fundamentally dishonest man. Unlike some others who have surrounded Reagan over the years, he has not sought to cash in his position for great wealth. But he is careless, perhaps uncomprehending, too hurried and a bad judge of people, events and ethical strictures. Whether or not he has committed a crime, he has too often proved blind to the elevated standards expected of the top law officer in the land. The improprieties are easy for the public to understand: he appeared to help friends who helped him financially...