Word: judgment
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Office for oral sex, and remarking that if she never told, no one would know, was enough to inspire first dizziness, then a regicidal rage. Through Clinton's peaceful, prosperous tenure he has been forgiven a world of winks and wiggly answers about youthful indiscretions and adult lapses of judgment. Last week even his apologists didn't know where to begin...
...people get used to some further degradation of the public discourse; spread the word, quietly, that Lewinsky was a flighty, gossip-mongering groupie. Above all, trust that if the affair ever wound up being tried before the Senate, that is the last body that would comfortably sit in judgment of a man who believes that a relationship based on oral sex is neither sexual nor a relationship...
...good fight, was gone long ago. Many people who are left want to leave. Most wouldn't dream of asking the President whether the charges were true, and wouldn't get an answer if they did: many aides were simply too stunned and tired to trust their judgment about what to say. While the nasty spin said Monica was too fat, too dumb, even for Clinton, those with a pulse murmured privately, as one put it, that "she fit the type too well...
...would then scribble in his journal, "We have no regret blowing up the wrong guy." Lethal injection would seem just the prescription for a figure who could, in a Sacramento, Calif., courtroom amid his victims, hear his three murders and 23 bombing injuries recounted, as if by Gabriel on Judgment Day, and respond, in a confident, remorseless voice, "Guilty, your Honor...
What was the meaning of the '60s? What is our inheritance from that tumultuous era? Few seemingly academic questions are as hotly contested in contemporary political battles. I do not possess the expertise to pass judgment on the meaning of the decade. But its legacy is an entirely different matter. It has less to do with what the decade actually meant, and more to do with what those 16-year-olds at the concert believe it meant. Those who remember the '60s favorably herald the decade as a triumph of progressive reform and popular empowerment. Maybe it was. But what...