Word: opinionated
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...less certain. Commitment to a U.S.-controlled canal is deeply embedded in popular sentiment and skillfully exploited by such conservative Republican Senators as Strom Thurmond of South Carolina and Jesse Helms of North Carolina. Helms flaunts a recent poll of 1,011 adult Americans by the Opinion Research Corporation, showing 78% for keeping the canal, only 14% willing to cede it to Panama. Yet the survey does not specify the conditions under which the U.S. might relinquish the canal...
...canal. For sure, there would be no colonial enclave to go with such a new canal. The treaty will say that we will discuss the possibility of a new sea-level canal if it is in the joint interest of the world community to build it. But my personal opinion is that a sea-level canal is not necessary. Such a canal would be excessively costly, and you can't build it in two weeks either. We don't want it-even wrapped in plastic...
...since the spectacle of demonstrators and flics fighting in the rain flashed across the newspaper pages and television screens of Europe and the rest of the world. That was what many of the environmentalists had hoped for, a massive coup de théátre that would turn public opinion against the far-ranging French nuclear-energy program...
Kristofferson, who is 41 and nine years older than Rita, thinks of himself as world weary and is more entitled to that opinion than many. He has at various times been a short-story writer, Golden Gloves boxer, top-ranked college football player, bartender, janitor, helicopter pilot, Army captain and scholar. He was graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Pomona College and went on to Oxford as a Rhodes scholar where, as Kris Carson, he dabbled in pop music. After quitting both academe and the Army, he began drifting. At 29 he found himself in Nashville, and he began writing songs...
...policy a little closer to Sulzberger's own middle-of-the-road pragmatism and initiated a number of features, including "Topics," a collection of short and sometimes snappy commentaries. Frankel (who reports directly to Publisher Sulzberger) has also expanded the range of subject matter and sharpened the bite of opinion on the page, though the point of view is sometimes difficult to track through the vivid prose...