Word: morale
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...President be impeached. Oh. My. God. Think about it. It would be the most bizarre horror show in history. As Alex Cockburn, in a frenzy of anticipation (some people do appreciate black comedy), put it, "How I yearn for it! To watch Newt Gingrich...pacing the battlements of moral rectitude will be as heady a tonic as was the French Revolution to young Wordsworth. Bliss it is in this dawn to be alive! It could be as great a carnival of hypocrisy as this nation has ever seen...
...though issues like Social Security and health-care reform might be better advanced now if he just stepped aside and let Al Gore take them up. At the prayer breakfast he also managed to describe his potential resurrection as an opportunity for "the children of this country" to learn moral lessons about selfishness and regeneration...
...cold war not wrapped in Old Glory but from the viewpoints of both protagonists." The neutral tone may perturb those who desire more explicit condemnation, but the facts about the Soviets are allowed to speak for themselves. "It comes loud and clear," says Gaddis, "that there were great moral deficiencies in the Soviet empire." As for the portrayal of the U.S., there may be some lapses in perspective--in the episode on the McCarthy era, for example, it is unfortunate that the filmmakers found no honorable anti-communist to balance the comments made by those who were sympathetic...
...tying 61st home run of the season, and the next night he showed up for his prime-time network-television special to hit No. 62. The record-breaking shot was McGwire's shortest, lamest homer of the year. Afterward, we looked to the media to be told what the moral significance was. It was like someone brought in the writers from Home Improvement...
...people, the President said he "misled" them. Rather than admit that he had had a sexual relationship with Monica Lewinsky, he said he had had a relationship that was "not appropriate." Rather than face the truth, he attacked independent counsel Kenneth Starr. We should expect to have a higher moral standard than Clinton has provided. JOHN S. JONES Ventura, Calif...