Word: flaccidities
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...same. The United States "urgently needs leaders to symbolize its values, to clarify choices, to help sift priorities, and most of all perhaps to keep hope alive," Gardner said. That may be, but the effect of Gardner's performance was to make his style of liberalism look a flaccid and intellectually featureless position and to drive the undecided into a re-examination of the alternatives he disparages...
...many of the young, Eugene McCarthy's antiwar campaign raised a brave new banner, and thousands of students trooped forth to crusade for a candidate who, for all his dry wit and charmingly unconventional style, proved in the course of the primaries too flaccid and vague to entertain any realistic hope of capturing the popular vote. Nonetheless, it was McCarthy who showed the vulnerability of Lyndon Johnson, and after the New Hampshire primary, Robert Kennedy could no longer resist the challenge to reassert what many of his followers seriously believed to be his legitimate cause against that...
...wild West but in southern Spain, and the scenery looks like mañana country. Sean Connery's Lowland Scottish accent continually leaks through his ersatz American drawl. Brigitte Bardot tries to redeem the movie by going topless-coyly and briefly-but her mascara-scorched eyes and flaccid acting make her seem as if she had gone sleepless since her last picture. The dubbed voice of that fine character actor. Jack Hawkins, limited to esophageal speaking since his operation for throat cancer two years ago, is thin, out-of-sync and does not remotely resemble his distinctive rasp. Even...
...Your article "A Savage Challenge to Détente" [Aug. 30] made some rather flaccid remarks about American "legitimate spheres of influence" and the soundness of armed intervention in Southeast Asia and the Dominican Republic. But détente is a two-way arrangement. If we feel free to make war in a small country on the other side of the world, using as our excuse the "threat" of external subversion, then I think we're asking too much of the Russians if we expect them to restrain themselves whenever they believe their "legitimate spheres of influence" are endangered...
...refuse to let you make me a class-B citizen," thundered the minority leader. Dirksen was fulminating against an amendment to the proposed ethics code by Pennsylvania's Joseph Clark and New Jersey's Clifford Case, who wished to stiffen the relatively flaccid measure...