Word: latters
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...such "classical" McCartney tunes as Eleanor Rigby and Yesterday, and you certainly can't dance to it. Indeed, the piece emerges as a curious cross between Elgar's The Dream of Gerontius and the Who's Quadrophenia, but it lacks either the former's ecstatic fervor or the latter's nose-in-the-dirt realism. One waits in vain for the real McCartney to loosen his tie and do something a little rude, but the composer seems overwhelmed by the cassocks and surplices. His vital rock roots remain very much a band...
Someone less devoted to Gomes's system might imagine that at least as much bibliolatry is involved in embracing the former as the latter. But if self-consistency (as Gomes acutely suggests) is too much to expect of the Holy Spirit, surely we would be unreasonable to demand it too rigorously of Harvard's Plummer professor...
...decision was draped in an unusually flimsy pretext: Bush said he needed to remain in Washington to "protect the American taxpayer" during the last days of the congressional session. Explained a more candid aide: "Given the choice between upsetting Americans and upsetting the Japanese, we'll take the latter every time...
...implies an indefensible double standard: The perpetrator doesn't have to face the consequences of his actions if they were ideologically motivated. The principle underlying this stance is that such actions are the natural extension of one's opinions, and to punish the former is to discriminate against the latter...
...Robert K. Massie notes in Dreadnought (Random House; 1,007 pages; $35), the Portsmouth review marked "the high-water mark of British naval supremacy," which had gone virtually unchallenged since Admiral Horatio Nelson's victory over a French fleet at Trafalgar in 1805. During the latter years of the 19th century, however, France and Russia had constructed seemingly formidable armadas. More worrisome, Germany, under the prodding of Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz, was rapidly building a war fleet to protect its commercial interests and colonial empire. The naval rivalry between Britain and Germany led to an arms race that...