Word: ill
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reckless, ill-informed assaults- based almost exclusively upon his abysmal ignorance of the facts and his own prejudice-are quite transparent to those familiar with the evidence...
...kind of like this world. I think it's great. Entertainment at your fingertips. Kids who grow more loving, not more demanding, every decade. Hope for the once hopelessly ill. Vaccines against emergencies. Insurance against 90% of all hardships. A moving, fluid society which groups and regroups everywhere you go, until you are receiving Christmas cards from every corner of the world...
Johnson has fared worse than most. Black Power Apostle Stokely Carmichael calls him a "hunky," a "buffoon," and a "liar." Stokely's successor as head of the ill-named Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee, H. Rap Brown, suggested that the President and Lady Bird ought to be shot. In The Accidental President, liberal Journalist Robert Sherrill described the President as "treacherous, dishonest, manic-aggressive, petty, spoiled." The outrageous play MacBird! called...
Actually, the limits on the Chief Executive's power in foreign affairs have always been ill-defined. When it comes to warmaking, there are few formal checks and balances on a President beyond his own judgment and character. On at least 125 occasions, U.S. Presidents have intervened abroad without a congressional by-your-leave. Jefferson sought neither advice nor consent when he dispatched a naval force to fight the Barbary pirates in 1801. Neither did Polk when he skirmished with the Mexicans in Texas, or Franklin Roosevelt when he sent troops to Iceland in 1941, or Truman when he sent...
...final note. List-making is a capricious process at best, and the selection of the last half is highly subjective. Billion Dollar Brain may be an oasis of craft in a desert of disjointed ill-conceived movies, but I can hardly make an objective case for it over Ingmar Bergman's Persona. An intense and deeply personal statement, Persona, to me, seemed largely an illustration of uncinematic ideas. Therefore, I didn't include it. But this was also the way I felt about Accident, and its selection over Persona simply indicates personal preference for Losey over Bergman. A point...