Word: frayed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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LAIER when Robert Kennedy decided to join the fray, he would ask Lowenstein to shift to his camp. Torn between friendship and respect for Kennedy and his commitment to back McCarthy, Lowenstein said no Kennedy retreated to the back of the bus on which the group was riding, and scribbled Lowenstein a note. "For A1, who knew the lesson of Emerson and taught it to the rest of us," it read. "They did not yet see ... that if a single man plant himself on his convictions and then abide, the huge world will come round to him. From his friend...
Joining the fray, Pierre Hassner, of France's National Foundation of Political Science, added, "I cannot help a feeling of déjà vu when you [Americans] talk about the dangers of leaving the region. It is what we said about Algeria and what you said about Viet Nam. You always fail to appreciate the basic problem, which is domestic change. You are in a no-win situation. It would be better to cut your losses and obtain, as you did in Cuba, a guarantee that there will be no Soviet bases there to be used against...
...politician, an image likely to be reinforced with the release in October of a movie based on The Right Stuff, a somewhat irreverent but also heroic book by Tom Wolfe about the astronauts. As an undeclared candidate for the past four months, Glenn has tried to stay above the fray. When he does go beyond comfortable cliches on controversial topics, he tends to focus on technical complexities, prompting another Senator's aide to call him "Jimmy Carter in a space suit...
...church has tried to stay out of the fray. Celebrating an open-air Mass for 20,000 people who had gathered to mark the arrival in Warsaw of the Black Madonna, Poland's most revered religious painting, Roman Catholic Primate Josef Cardinal Glemp told the hushed crowd, "This will be a decisive year for Poland, a year that will define the direction of her development." Glemp carefully avoided any reference to the May 1 protest. But later in the day, before another Mass in the port city of Gdansk, the Polish Cardinal spent about half an hour talking with...
Although he studiously remained above the fray, Mitterrand must now address his government's problems and choose between two equally unpalatable options: increased austerity measures and expanded protectionism. Mitterrand may even decide to form an entirely new government, without those ministers who, like Mauroy, performed unimpressively in the elections. But a change in faces may not be enough. After less than two years, Mitterrand's Socialist experiment is in urgent need of direction...