Word: godly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Akins believed that the Administration did too little too late. Said he: "Every pro-American Iranian I know says the same thing: 'For God's sake, why didn't you put pressure on the Shah earlier to make concessions?' If he'd made the concessions a year earlier that he made in December, he could have looked forward to the ten or 15 years of tranquil reign that the CIA predicted...
...three days, the 300,000 residents of the holy city of Qum had carefully scrubbed the dusty streets and minareted buildings, making ready for the Ayatullah's return. Now, hundreds of thousands of people, chanting "God is great," lined the narrow highway from Tehran to catch a glimpse of him as his motorcade drove by. When the blue Mercedes bearing the 78-year-old Shi'ite leader neared the city, the throng burst through a cordon of police and armed Islamic guerrillas. It engulfed the car in a sea of humanity so dense that it took nearly...
...being pitched off Amtrak passenger trains to save a few bucks," notes former White House speechwriter Pat Buchanan, "it approaches the obscene to demand that taxpayers triple their subsidy to this playpen of the penthouse proletariat." Never one for subtlety, James J. Kilpatrick says he "sees no reason on God's green earth for taking the taxpayer's money in order to nuture those happy hotdogs of the intellectual left who would love to get on the air and read their gaga poems at public expense." The commission characterizes public broadcasting as an "absolutely indespensable tool for our people...
...world-and it's been growing." Robert Coles, a child psychiatrist best known for his five-volume Children of Crisis, thinks that, if anything, children are unwholesomely overvalued by many parents: "They are the only thing the parents believe in. They don't believe in God, or in any kind of transcendence, and so they believe in their children. They are concerned with them almost in a religious way - which I think is unfortunate - as an extension of themselves. That is quite a burden for a child to experience. In that sense, it is not cruelty to children...
...Armageddon is something of a growth industry. In an avalanche of recent books, polar caps melt, a new ice age begins, the oceans disappear, the ozone level is destroyed, terrorists touch off a nuclear war, astronauts bring back a deadly Andromeda Strain. Destruction may also come from a maddened god (Gore Vidal's Kalki). Or in an unending snowstorm (George Stone's Blizzard). Or from the scorching "greenhouse effect" of too much CO2 in the atmosphere (Arthur Herzog's Heat). Or through global political disintegration (The Third World War: August 1985 by a group of English officers...