Word: malignity
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pull everybody back to square one, by changing his mind or getting the sack. Even if he stays on his present course, he will remain the ruler of a big country with large arsenals. There is enough history ahead for all but the most jaded. Once the malign magnetic field that held us with such power breaks, however, conservatives will have to find new ways to meet history. "Most of us," wrote political philosopher Kenneth R. Minogue in 1963, "are, in some degree or other, liberal. It is only the very cynical, the unassailably religious, or the consistently nostalgic...
...industry's top snob, Wylie makes it his duty to malign agents who represent books he considers vulgar. He has called Janklow the literary equivalent of a heroin dealer for handling novels by authors like Judith Krantz. "They have no lasting value and two years after they've been published are worth nothing," he says with a Grottlesex stammer...
...some members of the Harvard administration and faculty continue to circulate, clouding the vision of other administrators and creating a veil of prejudice through which the student population must view us. It seems pitiful that in one of the world's most "enlightened" institutions, the administration sees fit to malign and degrade people in a manner more suitable to the Dark Ages. However, as organizations devoting their time, energy and money to help others, the position of the Harvard administration concerns us little. Considering that this is an institution that barred admission to Blacks for hundreds of years, has shown...
Take the Republican assault on Governor Dukakis over the Pledge of Allegiance. This bare-knuckled attack aimed to accomplish two things. One was to locate and identify the Governor for a national audience. The Republicans' intentions, of course, were malign, but they found their opening in Dukakis' relative obscurity outside his home state. The Republicans hoped that a trivial action, which had passed almost unnoticed in the political culture of Massachusetts, would have a different resonance when replayed in the political culture of the country as a whole. The second purpose of the pledge attack was to restate...
...background and ideology, the two men differ in their approach to hard-core poverty. Whereas Reagan practiced a policy of malign neglect toward the Underclass (interspersed with jabs about "welfare queens" and "young bucks" using food stamps), Bush has tried to show a more caring side. He says he wants "a kinder, gentler nation," but he has yet to offer much more than Reaganomics with a human face...