Word: pariah
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...consensus," seems to have slighted those other battles. According to every indicator, the President now stands on the threshold of a personal triumph. The "born loser" of the early 1960s seems within reach of an overwhelming political victory: even millions of Democrats to whom he was once a partisan pariah will be pulling Republican levers. But Nixon, the loyal party man who owed so much to Republican Party workers down the line, now seems unwilling to share that popularity with his colleagues. Largely as a result, his party may be about to fumble its best opportunity in 20 years...
...incident might have made the diminutive (5-ft. 7-in.) comedian a network pariah. But, as the author of Ecclesiastes might have predicted had he been born in the television age, "To everything there is a [summer-replacement] season." This one finds Steinberg, now 31, working for CBS again-as host of a five-week variety series filling in for the Carol Burnett Show. One of his guests will be Tommy Smothers, the man who is currently suing CBS for $31 million. Steinberg himself will be an anti-CBS witness in that case. Says he, savoring the irony...
...Baby Doc" is the youngest President and most implausible statesman in the world. His country, with its 3.5 to 5 million wretchedly impoverished black and mulatto peasants -no one knows exactly how many there are-has long been a pariah of the Western Hemisphere, ripe for almost any sort of political chaos. Thus when he assumed office after his father's death in April, Baby Doc was widely voted the Pooh-Bah least likely to succeed. However, Baby Doc-or at least the government that operates in his name-has presided over five months of unlikely tranquillity and even...
...unsettling. One nurse in Kings County Hospital made a point of telling her "what a pretty little boy" had just been aborted, though Valada had asked not to be told the fetus' sex. Mothers in the maternity ward, where she was sent to recover, treated her like a pariah. 'They would just look at me." said Valada. "and the looks could tell me what they were thinking...
...Picketed Pariah. Slowly McMillan became convinced that the Constitution required far more integration. Two years ago, he ruled that all known ways of desegregating should be considered, "including busing." The mere mention of the word caused outrage in Charlotte, and by the time the judge actually ordered the start of busing last year, he was all but a pariah to many in the community. Though he is an avid golfer (9 or 10 handicap), rumor had it that he was unable to pick up a foursome. McMillan denies that. But pickets on his lawn did demand his impeachment; there were...