Word: kissingerian
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...WOULD AGREE the speech was remarkable--not for its insightful vision into the problems of Western democracies like the United States, but for its condescension, alarmism and hack psychologizing conspicuously cloaked in a Kissingerian veil of scholarly objectivism. These may seem like unnecessarily--and for those who know me, uncharacteristically--bitter words. But I believe Moynihan was being either intellectually dishonest or arrogantly blind, two popular Cambridge mindsets that, once revealed, should be pilloried with all the venom of a congregation of offended Puritans. My anger is sharpened by the frightening prospect of Moynihan's taking a seat...
...Staff Richard Cheney and by Ford himself. The President and Kissinger had gone over its outline in two one-hour sessions, and Ford had indicated his decision to support the revised policy at a Cabinet meeting before the Secretary left for Africa. Finally, the timing was dictated not by Kissingerian whim but by a long-scheduled United Nations trade meeting in Kenya (see THE WORLD); Kissinger did not just wander aimlessly into the Dark Continent...