Word: hooey
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Reagan's sermonizing before the Evangelicals is a dangerous mix of electioneering hooey and religious claptrap. As Sidey makes clear in his story, the U.S. is a pluralistic nation whose impressive strength derives from its being an open marketplace for ideas and opinions. The country does not need to hear pious bray and howl from the occupant in the White House. It needs to have that marketplace responsibly guarded...
...more objective than it was in the days when Randolph Hearst could drum himself up a war south of the border. The technology of telecommunications has not only reduced exponentially the time needed for the transmission of information--it has increased the potential for propagating untruths indefinitely. The hooey of the old bought-off newspaperman is nothing to the lies of a rating-hungry television show...
...keeping the Government off the backs of the people, Douglas did not mean the people who run Big Business. He was a classic New Deal liberal. As chairman of the SEC from 1937 to 1939, he responded with a resounding "Hooey!" to stock-market leaders who insisted they could regulate themselves. Appointed to the Supreme Court in 1939 by President Franklin Roosevelt, Douglas brought with him a thorough knowledge of corporate finance that he later used to shape many little-known but far-reaching decisions affecting the Government's power to regulate the economy...