Word: ire
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...easy to see why Einstein aroused ire. Revolutionary in nature, his ideas about space and time collided directly with ancient prejudices and seemed to contradict everyday experience. In ad dition, there were his outspoken antinationalism and, ironically in light of his own lack of belief in formal religion, the fact that he was a Jew. But criticism abroad was muted compared with that in Germany, where Jews were being made the scapegoats for loss of the war and Einstein's pacifism was bitterly remembered. Einstein and his "Jewish physics" became the object of increasingly scurrilous denunciations. Fellow German scientists turned...
...state's ruling establishment. Don Bolles gave the conservative newspaper a national reputation for muckraking it largely did not deserve, and it came as no surprise to those who live there when Arizona's only state-wide newspaper, with its stranglehold on public opinion, refused to print the IRE series brought about the murder of its own reporter. An editorial by the PhoenixGazette, owned by the same family that runs the Republic, expressed the live-and-let-live sentiments of most of Arizona's establishment about the state's reputation for organized crime: "A look at the bright side...
Despite Don Bolles's death and the IRE series, it is men like Kemper Marley who continue to run the state of Arizona. Barry Goldwater, exposed by the IRE team for his association with gangsters and members of the Arizona mob, is still a United States senator. Goldwater's boyhood friend Harry Rosenzweig, also implicated by the IRE series for connections to organized crime, still wields vast political and financial clout in Arizona, although he is no longer chairman of the state's Republican Party. For all of the token reforms that have occurred in Arizona, the state is still...
...disciplinary action been taken against two of Phoenix's leading attorneys, Mark Harrison and Gary Nelson. Harrison, the one-time president of the Arizona Bar Association and a special counsel to the state Attorney General, was exposed by the IRE team for trying to set up an organized prostitution ring in Phoenix to service the state's legal community. Nelson, a friend and former law partner of Harrison's and at the time the state Attorney General, allegedly tipped off his friend Harrison about a police investigation of the call-girl ring. Soon after, according to the IRE series...
...problem is not that the IRE reporters failed to try hard enough, nor that the concept of team investigation was somehow ineffective or sloppy. Rather, the problem is that the forces that led to Don Bolles's death in the first place continue to prevent necessary reforms in Arizona. The state's natives knew what to expect from the beginning. "These Easterners," exclaimed one Arizonan with exasperation, "they all come out here and flap their wings and think everything is going to change overnight. Well, it hasn't. They pack their bags and leave, and everything stays just the same...