Word: muscularity
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...near perfect decorum with Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney in public. But the three men fought pitched battles behind the scenes over most of the Administration's foreign policies. For the first time this year, Powell started winning a few. Powell, 65, has long taken exception to the conservatives' muscular brand of unilateralism, arguing instead that the U.S. should act in concert with allies. He scored a crucial victory in August when he persuaded President Bush to engage the U.N. before attacking Iraq. Powell's supporters claim victories for his brand of allied efforts elsewhere, in Asia, Russia...
...been carrying one around in his briefcase for a decade. As Secretary of Defense, Cheney had commissioned two top aides, Paul Wolfowitz and I. Lewis (Scooter) Libby, to draw up a plan to reorient U.S. defense policy after the cold war. When word of the strategy was leaked, its muscular call for the U.S. to prevent the rise of hostile powers and act pre-emptively against states developing weapons of mass destruction was met with an uproar in the foreign policy establishment. But what was considered right-wing fringe thinking a decade ago is currently U.S. policy. Wolfowitz is Deputy...
...Loyalist Nobody successfully serves as many masters as Cheney has without a disciplined code of loyalty. With his conservative instincts, he was an unnatural fit in the relatively moderate fOrd Administration. He was suspicious of Kissingerian detente, for example, preferring Reagan's muscular anticommunism, but he buried his own politics in service to the President. In the 1976 primary, he faithfully leaned on Republicans in Wyoming, which was fast becoming Reagan country, to stick with Ford, even if most of the delegation went against...
...only produce a new Romanticism, the Romance of the Machine Age. In Power Series, Wheels, his 1939 picture of a locomotive wheel assembly, Sheeler wants you to admire the hard new beauty of a plain steel mechanism. But there's no mistaking the libidinous headway in this picture. Those muscular steel drive shafts, that little spurt of steam in the lower right--Sheeler's superchief is as full of winking sex as Marcel Duchamp's Great Glass. It's also funnier because it keeps such a straight face...
Attracting low-income students to top schools like Harvard is especially difficult because, as Director of the Undergraduate Minority Recruitment Program Roger Banks points out, “mythologies surrounding places like Harvard are very muscular.” But the fact that mythologies may be more imposing at Harvard than elsewhere does not explain why the JBHE reports that Harvard’s Pell Grant numbers have increased far less than other highly selective schools like Cornell, Yale and Duke...