Word: moynihanized
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...undue concern or issue self-fulfilling prophecies, yet anxious to prepare Americans for what they see coming, many experts on terrorism fear the worst. Declares former CIA Director Richard Helms: "It would be surprising if a wave of terrorism didn't hit the U.S." New York Senator Daniel Moynihan, who sits on the Intelligence Committee, was even more alarmist at a New York conference on terrorism last week: "The prospect of 1984 being the year they bring the war to our shores is real. We should assume it and not be surprised...
...dominant right and left. That is perhaps why it commands so large a following among intellectuals, even it it has lost ground among politicians. And lost ground it has. In the end, Jackson stood virtually alone. With his death and the abdication of his heir apparent, Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, who has quietly moved to the orthodox liberal fold, the center is now weaker than ever...
...agreed: "We don't want another pro-Castro Marxist government down there." Senate Democrats were far harsher. Paul Tsongas of Massachusetts called the invasion "Reagan's new interventionism," Thomas Eagleton of Missouri said it represented "a trigger-happy foreign policy," and New York's Daniel Patrick Moynihan noted: "I don't know that you restore democracy at the point of a bayonet." House Democrats were initially more muted, with Speaker Tip O'Neill contending that criticism was inappropriate while the fighting was under way. But once the battle on the island was winding down...
...York Democrat Daniel Patrick Moynihan theatrically slammed to the floor a packet of materials assembled by Helms, proclaiming it "filth." New Jersey Democrat Bill Bradley voiced openly a common suspicion that Helms was trying to inflame racial antagonism in order to win white votes in his re-election campaign next year. Helms, said the normally mild-mannered Bradley, "is playing up to old Jim Crow and all of us know...
...extraction, caught the attention of the late Nancy Hanks, chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts. A shrewd politician and dedicated preservationist, she charmed the General Services Administration, which is the federal landlord, and enlisted help on the Hill, including the support of Senators Daniel P. Moynihan and Mike Gravel. Hanks, for whom the new center is named, once told a committee, "Old buildings are like friends. They reassure in times of change...