Word: opinionator
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Schmidt's Bundestag audience was so concerned over the deteriorating relations with Washington that he stoutly had to proclaim the obvious: "West German-U.S. relations are so deeply entrenched that they cannot be uprooted by occasional differences of opinion." Schmidt then made a significant concession to Carter, who has linked eventual development of the bomb partly to Bonn's willingness to deploy it on West German soil. For the first time, the Chancellor openly backed the new weapon and stated that it could be based in his country if it would "be a decision of the [NATO...
...developing on immigration, with its appeal to racial fears, and law-and-order. Callaghan's chances of remaining in No. 10 Downing Street are now about even with Thatcher's moving there, a remarkable turnaround for a man who was 22 points behind Thatcher in the opinion polls 18 months...
...legacy, from both sides, made Hamilton a kind of perpetual outsider, with a low and cynical opinion of human beings. He thought men must be led through their interests and vices rather than their affections and virtues. Left so vulnerable, he was obsessed by power and order. He sought father figures-a role filled for some time by Washington; he became Washington's de facto chief of staff at the astonishing age of 20. Hamilton was given to nervous collapses, irrational eruptions and an anxious preoccupation with personal glory. It seemed somehow right that such a touchy man should...
...this point in the article, I could have felt that Mr. Emmerich was taking a rather strong position against sociobiology but one which, in the spectrum of human opinion, is as justifiable and allowable as any other. Yet when J. Wyatt concludes that "It [sociobiology] serves as a powerful force of legitimization for the elites of a hierarchical society that is kind to those on top and harsh to those on the bottom." (Anyway, what kind of sentence is this!) I must take strong objection. If, with any degree of writing skill and thematic continuity Emmerich employed in composing...
These two flaws, in our opinion, and especially the former, render this constitution unacceptable without prior amendment...