Word: grips
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...made a bland statement noting with approval the possiblity of Electoral Tribunal changes (that body has long been stacked with Torrijos appointees) and ministerial resignations. Nonetheless, Royo's resignation, said the parties, revealed the "incapacity" of Panama's National Guard-dominated political system. The guard's grip on that system is likely to become, if anything, more blatant in the future...
...mystique of Kennedy liberalism, in short, continues to haunt White's heart, but it has finally loosened its grip on his political intellect. Specifically, White says, his old heroes' spending helped cause nearly uncontrollable inflation; their broken promises of a glorious international role contributed to the humiliating loss of confidence in American power that reached its nadir with the Iran hostage crisis. White pinpoints those trends--economic aimlessness and national impotence, along with the increasingly potent reign of television--as leading America to its conservative backlash of 1980. That landslide, to White, was the ultimate repudiation of impotent Democratic goodwill...
...sometimes called the supreme court of finance, has long been a subject of swirling controversy. In 1975, during a deep recession, Democrats in Congress charged that the board's chairman, Arthur Burns, who served from 1970 to 1978, had made the downturn worse by keeping too tight a grip on the money supply. His successor, G. William Miller, was attacked with equal vigor later on for the opposite reason: pumping too much money into the economy during the Carter years and thus fueling inflation...
...cats and dead preppies-the subjects of the five bestselling titles on American campuses last year? These are books for minds at rest. They are also the books favored by the rest of the nation, which suggests that the post-Viet Nam fatigue syndrome has us all in its grip. Your values and interests are no worse or better than those that are filtering down from the larger society that nurtured you. If you have not given your elders any clear sense of who you are, perhaps it is because you are just like your elders. Your priorities...
From the ancient, white-gloved Harvard comparatively little remains. Some truly wonderful institutions survive-morning prayers in Appleton Chapel, for one, and ivy on the walls for another (though these days its grip is perilous). The clubs, they say, are resurgent, but most of the College would have trouble listing half of them by name. And Fox, Fly, Owl, Spee and their kindred are given over now more to fraternity-style carousing and less to gentility (though tuxedos remain de rigger). The preppie movement-the defiant wearing of madras and espadrilles-amounted to not so much...