Word: formalization
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What Herod saw was America in the late 1980s and early '90s, right down to that dire phrase "New Age." A society obsessed with therapies and filled with distrust of formal politics, skeptical of authority and prey to superstition, its political language corroded by fake pity and euphemism. A nation like late Rome in its long imperial reach, in the corruption and verbosity of its senators, in its reliance on sacred geese (those feathered ancestors of our own pollsters and spin doctors) and in its submission to senile, deified Emperors controlled by astrologers and extravagant wives. A culture that...
...America's long-cherished culture of therapeutics. Thus we create a juvenile culture of complaint in / which Big Daddy is always to blame and the expansion of rights goes on without the other half of citizenship: attachment to duties and obligations. We are seeing a public recoil from formal politics, from the active, reasoned exercise of citizenship. It comes because we don't trust anyone. It is part of the cafard the '80s induced: Wall Street robbery, the savings and loan scandal, the wholesale plunder of the economy, an orgy released by Reaganomics that went on for years with hardly...
...loopholes in the proposed accord could make it meaningless. Precisely which sites will be open to inspection and how the monitors will operate are questions that have not been resolved. The Prime Ministers of the two Koreas expect to close the holes and sign a formal pact later this month. Even so, the agreement still fails to commit North Korea either to signing the International Atomic Energy Agency's nonproliferation treaty or to IAEA inspections...
Economic Reform: First, and most important, the IMF should seek to negotiate a formal macroeconomic programme with every ex-Soviet republic prepared to make the radical reforms needed. In effect, it should treat the republics as member countries, their programmes being subject to approval by the IMF executive board and to standard IMF monitoring and conditionality...
Peace and goodwill were appropriately item No. 1 on the national agenda the weekend before Christmas. They were the objectives proclaimed by all 19 of the delegations that opened formal negotiations on a new, nonracial constitution for the country. As the 228 black, white, Indian and mixed-race politicians gathered for the first session of the Convention for a Democratic South Africa at a conference center near Johannesburg, African National Congress leader Nelson Mandela said the challenge they faced was "to unshackle ourselves from the past and build anew...