Word: phrased
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...other half of the "wreckers" circle is said to be those who "call themselves Maoists." It is hard to know exactly who Dean Ford means by this phrase, but the most likely candidates are the members of Progressive Labor. Dean Ford's phrase, however, is worse than vague. For the term suggests a false analogy to Stalinist or Trotskyite (which Ford tries to disavow, though not explicitly). "Maoist" suggests someone under the domination of a rigid, foreign (un-American?) ideology. To call members of Progressive Labor Maoists, in ignorance of the content of their programs, is meaningless: worse...
When one of our leaders in SDS said (during the Dow demonstration) that "we are going to bring this university to an end, as you know it," liberals frequently ignored the qualifying phrase "as you know it." Our position will seem purely destructive, only if you feel that what Dean Ford calls the present "fundamental distribution of roles and responsibilities in the University" is sacrosanct. For it is true that if we had our way that distribution of roles and responsibilities (not to mention power) would be destroyed. We do desire (at least) a "fundamental alteration" -- as Ford puts...
Moynihan, a liberal who has no qualms about attacking liberal shibboleths, titles his book Maximum Feasible Misunderstanding-a takeoff on the phrase "maximum feasible participation," which refers to the goal of involving the poor in planning and executing the programs that are to affect them. The phrase was especially applicable to the "community action" projects that were supposed to become the centerpiece of the whole anti-poverty effort. The trouble was, says Moynihan, that the Government never really comprehended what community action was all about and "did not know what it was doing...
...choreography partly redeem it, but most of the film's sporadic success is due to Director Ken Hughes's fantasy scenes, which make up in imagination what they lack in technical facility. Next to Tiny Tim's hallowed remark, the holiday season's most overworked phrase is "What can we take the children...
...During the campaign, for instance, Nixon declared that the U.S. must help Israel maintain clear military superiority over the Arabs. Last week, however, William Scranton, Nixon's roving fact finder, said while in the Middle East that the U.S. should adopt a more "evenhanded" approach. He repeated the phrase after reporting to Nixon in New York. Scranton's implication was clear: the U.S. had been unfair to the Arab states. Nixon himself has not indicated any modification in U.S. policy, and Israel's Moshe Dayan said after conferring with Nixon that he did not anticipate any reduction...