Word: rabidness
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...stark contrast, he continued, "the so-called environmentalist movement" is endemic to rich nations, where the most rabid crusaders tend to be well-fed urbanites who sample the delights of nature on weekend outings. Borlaug feels that campaigns to ban agricultural chemicals-starting with DDT-reveal a callous misordering of social priorities. If such bans become law, he warned, "then the world will be doomed not by chemical poisoning but by starvation...
...preparing instructions for the jury. The court people, the clerk and reporter and bailiff, keep you right on track. I really had fun." Added Goodin: "When you're up there running the joint, it's different. You have to react instead of act. From being a rabid advocate, you've got to try to become a wise and just judge. Keeping your mouth shut is a heck...
...archetypes over-familiar to readers of the urban novel: eunuchoid males, knife-edged women's libertarians, garrulous old leftists, jittery blacks. To make Sophie's affliction even more puzzling, she is given an external symbol-a bite by a cat that may or may not be rabid. Is the plague external? Or does it lie within...
Burden of Accommodation. Demonstrating considerable sophistication about the U.S., Arbatov noted that not "all Americans who favor an improvement in U.S.-China relations are motivated by hostility toward other socialist countries," meaning Soviet Russia. But some of the U.S. champions of a rapprochement with Peking are also "rabid haters of the Soviet Union," added Arbatov, and that "cannot but make one think." He noted the widespread antiwar feeling in the U.S. and the desire for international relaxation, but added that Moscow ought to take "the statements about Washington's peace-loving intentions and good will seriously" only if they...
Thus, as the stage was being prepared for Goldwater's nomination by the Republican Party in 1964, Buckley, F. Clifton White, and William Rusher (publisher of National Review ) had effective control of a youthful right-wing coalition whose members ranged from rabid anti-Communists to near-anarchists. All enthusiastically supported Goldwater-even Ayn Rand, supremely contemptuous of politics, said that he was the first presidential candidate since Thomas Jefferson that she respected...