Word: mindedness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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» Politics is not celebrated for the manufacture of good news-except in campaign promises. Yet the nation has successfully weathered its severest constitutional crisis without producing oligarchy or chaos. The three-way division of powers, which has provoked more funeral orations than Julius Caesar, still functions. If the recent...
In Parliament, Roy Jenkins, the humane and reform-minded Home Secretary, found himself cast in the difficult role of trying to convince an enraged public that the government was doing everything reasonable to protect its citizens. Among the "draconian" measures, "unprecedented in peacetime," that Jenkins asked Parliament to pass: outlawing...
So we had lots of time for talking at the airport, and at a lull in the conversation one of our hosts said, the way you might ask a stranger how did he like President Ford, "In your opinion, what is the main motive force in history?" My impression was...
Claude Chabrol defines absurdity as the gap between the awesome finality of death and the trivial reasons men adduce for killing or putting themselves in the way of being killed. To him, murder is the ultimate emotional excess, an enigma he has worried with a tough-minded, ironic and often...
Too Casual. Then abruptly he went off on another tack and got into trouble. "It would be almost as bad as Seven Days in May," he said, referring to the novel in which the military seizes power. "You can conjure a situation where there is another oil embargo and people...