Word: perfection
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...memoirs to be published in May, Hiss, 83, who served 44 months in prison on a perjury conviction as a result of the microfilm evidence, excoriates Chambers as a "psychopath . . . the perfect pawn" of an opportunistic young Congressman then serving on the House Un-American Activities Committee: Richard Nixon...
...Bingham saga spans several generations, but Barry Sr. and his wife dominate the pages. Mary, a Southern girl poor in finances but rich in snobbish pretense, met Barry when they were students at Radcliffe and Harvard. She saw in him the perfect Kentucky gentleman who could make her dreams of genteel grandeur come true. "Like Barry," Brenner writes, "she . . . had grown up with the same hard lessons of vanquished pride, the specter of Civil War memorials, geriatric veterans invited for Sunday dinner, and the endless parades of cripples . . . celebrating another battle of the Lost Cause...
...first of the newcomer flock arrived in 1985 with European Travel & Life, an album of life-styles of the rich and shameless now owned by Rupert Murdoch. Writers scout the perfect half-timbered inns of Normandy, poke into isolated Sardinian coves, or try for par on a Scottish golf course. Most issues include pictures of food you can smell off the page. "We take you to places you wouldn't see," explains Editor in Chief David Breul, "and introduce you to people you wouldn't meet." There seems to be no shortage of vicarious voyagers: circulation has risen...
Political sciencists couldn't have come up with a more perfect exercise in the use of military coercion. The territory of our treaty ally was invaded by her expansionist Soviet-bloc neighbor; the United States sent in troops as a warning that a deeper invasion would provoke the retaliation of our forces; the enemy withdrew without reaching its objective that threatened American national interest. It would all have been perfect, except for meddling by the Democratic congressmen who invited Managua to enjoy its Spring Break in Honduras...
...students who might otherwise have despaired of studying American history at Harvard. Most important, impressive, and remarkable, given the demands placed on scholars at the associate professor level, Allen Steinberg never gives in to the easy analysis or explanation. In lecture and discussion he is forever reaching for the perfect word, or the delicate analysis, which makes a student's mental juices flow...