Word: harshe
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...best part was meeting and working for Rickover, the man who more than any other, except for Carter's father, had the greatest impact on his life. Rickover did more than merely select Carter for the atomic submarine program. The admiral -then a captain-set harsh standards, which Carter has been trying to meet ever since, and which he attempted to set for his own subordinates when he entered politics...
...like the authors, one has to avoid passing too harsh a judgment on the class, despite its failure rate. The class of '65 is not a dead event--its members are still alive, still making decisions, still working out contradictions between their values and their reality. Many of the people described in What Really Happened have already become adults, making reasonable decisions rather than floating around in a haze of options. Their lives go on--professionals, businessmen, masseurs and missionaries--and perhaps in the end they will, in fact, change the world, incorporating their counterculture into their parents' lifestyles...
That vote cast harsh light on a particular problem for the South's Republican Party, which as recently as 1972 showed promise of providing the region, at long last, with a genuine two-party system. Dwight Eisenhower, national hero, had brought respectability to Southern Republicanism in 1952, carrying Florida, Tennessee, Texas and Virginia. His success signaled at least the beginning of the end for "yellow-dog democracy," in which, or so it was said, Southerners would vote for a yellow dog if it were nominated by the Democratic Party. By the late 1950s, efforts by Democratic Southern Governors attracting Northern...
...with ideas, he sometimes lets his thoughts race ahead of his prudence. But so far he has not made another gaffe on the order of "benign neglect," the phrase taken from one of his memos to Nixon and gleefully misinterpreted by his enemies. Moynihan was urging a moratorium on harsh racial rhetoric, but his words were twisted to make it appear he was recommending the neglect of blacks. For this and other dubious reasons, most black leaders in New York oppose his candidacy...
After the harsh sentences were handed down, the defendants promptly filed appeals last week and said they would take the case all the way to the supreme court if necessary, a process that would take at least a year. Meanwhile, many of them will remain in prison...