Word: opinionizing
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...With reference to the "stay the course" rhetoric: When attacked for having changed his opinion on a matter, Winston Churchill elegantly replied, "My views are in a harmonious process, which keeps them in relation to the current movement of events." Only fools stick to their ideas after they have been proved wrong. The world awaits evidence that Bush is no fool. Lennart Lordin Karlskrona, Sweden...
...always thought American writers were a bit more willing to do that, because their opinions on such things are valued. In England the opinion of the novelist on any issue is considered of rather less interest than the man in the street. They hate writers in England. They think they're sort of jumped-up pointy-heads. Stick to fiction, is what you hear, if you venture any opinion...
...wouldn't believe how out of kilter regular opinion is in England. I was on a TV program with a big audience who asked questions, and someone said that since America backed Osama while he was fighting the Russians, their response to Sept. 11th should be as follows: they should drop bombs on themselves. And the audience applauded with enthusiasm...
...exhausting. The idealistic founding energies have matured into certain disillusions of middle age. The moral discrepancy in the original ideal has come home to roost. Israel's political leadership is divided and essentially stagnant, taken by surprise by the Palestinian uprising, paralyzed by the dilemma of the territories. Public opinion is splintered between hard-liners who want to keep all the land and those willing to take the chance of giving some of it up for peace. On neither side, in Israel, is the matter as theoretical as it might be elsewhere. Apocalypse is a possibility always. People live with...
Litman recalls drafting an opinion with a “little flaw” that he did not believe could be fixed without cutting corners...