Word: partisanship
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Washington's springtime lapse from civility is as worrisome as the issues that provoked the bitterness. Not in many a year have there been such relentless partisanship and personal rancor along the capital's leafing avenues. There is no immunity. Not only has the running Democratic-Republican battle been raised to new intensity, but in the general melee, conservatives have attacked conservatives, legislative allies have thumped one another, special interests have zinged their benefactors, and friends have criticized friends...
...labored to get Democrats in his power circle to conduct the Civil War. Harry Truman brought notable Republicans into his Government because they were the best candidates for the jobs and he understood he had to be President of all America. A curse of these times is rank, vengeful partisanship, practiced too often by the President and returned in kind by Democrat Thomas O'Neill, Speaker of the House. "I never conceived of the other party as being the enemy," Kirkpatrick said last week. Referring to the late Democratic Senator Henry Jackson of Washington, she went on: "I can best...
...complaints of conservative parishioners about D.M.S. partisanship were relatively restrained until last year, when members of the contentious group began disrupting worship services at area churches attended by executives of targeted corporations. As a result, 71 of the 145 members of Roth's church petitioned the Lutheran regional synod to investigate their pastor's conduct. The parishioners accused him of devoting more attention to D.M.S. than to his flock's spiritual needs. In October the synod's executive board and Pittsburgh's Bishop Kenneth May, applying rarely used provisions of the Lutheran Church in America's national constitution, decided that...
Before Los Angeles, commentators predicted the death of the Olympics as a form: too political, too nationalistic. The Los Angeles crowds were often rudely nationalistic. But the Games transcended that partisanship. Part of the charm of an Olympics is that we are for those days represented by bright, eager, muscular youth, intensely alive. They become us, they embody us. Their acts become ours. From this identification flows a sense of pride and possibility and renewal...
...This partisanship, because it is so blatant and continuous, is acceptable and almost entertaining. "Congress proved to be as obtuse about the nation's ghettos and their attendant problems as it was about the mess in Vietnam," they write (page 120). "Never before in time of war (declared or not) had so many citizens freely stood up to say to their government. "No, Stop!'" (page...