Word: opinionator
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...annual White Paper on public expenditure. During the debate, the Tories charged that the projected 1% cut in government outlays was too little, too late-an argument that masked Thatcher's aim of forcing elections now, while the Tories are 16 points ahead of Labor in opinion polls. Liberal M.P.s also raised questions. Translation: Liberal Party Leader David Steel wants a larger voice in government decisions for his 13-member delegation. Scottish and Welsh Nationalists, annoyed by Labor's fumble last month on a devolution bill that would grant regional assemblies for their areas, are itching to topple...
...soft on Communists. "What would you do with Communists in America?" the Chief Justice asked Eisenhower. His reply: "I would kill the s.o.b.'s." Nor did Eisenhower agree with the court's decision on school desegregation in Brown v. Board of Education. Shortly before the opinion was announced, he invited the Chief Justice to a White House dinner with the counsel for the segregation states and made a quiet plea on their behalf. "These are not bad people," Ike told Warren. "All they are concerned about is to see that their sweet little girls are not required...
Another student asked him for his opinion about Harry Reems' conviction for acting in a pornographic film...
When a Crimson reporter rings me up (usually around 11:00 p.m.) to ask my opinion on weighty matters, I refuse to answer any but the most simple questions, on the grounds that I have no control over the results. When a reporter called on Thursday evening to inquire about the actions of the CRR during my chairmanship in 1975, I broke my rule, since it seemed that only straightforward facts were involved, which I could at least count on being accurately recorded...
McCarthy also offered some observations about his Democratic opponent's literary preferences. "Carter's not much for poetry...(or) metaphor," McCarthy said, adding that the president's speeches rely heavily on adverbs and adjectives, two parts of speech which, in McCarthy's opinion, fail to convey philosophical meaning...