Word: kindered
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...that predate her husband's bug for politics. As she heads for 64, with no regrets about having poured her energies into raising her family, she seems to have enough heart left over to suffer fools gladly. Years of good works behind her, she is the embodiment of the kinder, gentler world that her husband so gauzily evoked during the campaign...
...that wealth will someday trickle down to our less successful brethren, we should work to create an environment of cooperation in which all men and women have meaningful opportunities to succeed. After eight years of Ronald Reagan's cold shoulder, we should see to it that George Bush's "kinder, gentler nation" generates some warmth...
...rhetorical gifts. But his speech at last summer's Republican Convention has already left its mark on the American language -- at least the kind pundits write and speak. Ever since Bush invited the Congress to "read my lips," invoked a "thousand points of light" and promised a "kinder and gentler nation," journalists have become obsessed with the phrases...
Most pervasive, however, has been the use of "kinder, gentler." Since August, journalists have conjured up the images of a kinder, gentler Congress, Soviet Union, FCC, sitcom and leveraged buyout. The Washington Post even reported that the IRS was preparing a "kinder, gentler 1040." New York Times columnist William Safire feels that the epidemic (to which TIME itself has not been immune) has taken hold because journalists need such pithy lines to play on. Says Safire: "It's catnip, and we're all cats...
...meeting with Mikhail Gorbachev was going during last month's minisummit, President Reagan replied, "Read our smiles," a line that turned up on the next day's front pages. New York City Mayor Ed Koch, who faces a tough re-election fight, recently promised reporters -- you guessed it -- a "kinder, gentler Ed Koch." But just in case the President- elect is growing tired of his own cliches, help is on the way: Peggy Noonan, the writer who penned his New Orleans speech, is currently honing a new batch for the Inaugural Address. And none too soon...