Word: rethink
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After listening to Begin, Administration aides had to rethink the kind of Geneva Conference that could be held. Before the Washington summit. National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski had drawn up alternatives that were described at the White House as "Geneva Up" and "Geneva Down." Geneva Up would be a conference at which the parties would go in with the procedural details worked out in advance and a relatively clear idea of the substantive matters to be discussed. At a Geneva Down conference, even the procedural issues-who should attend and how to approach the substantive issues-would have...
...would like to have my children home from school so that they could watch the events on television. Instead, they are home on Columbus Day, Washington's Birthday, Lincoln's Birthday, when the only thing they see is the sales in the department stores. Congress should rethink our entire national holiday setup...
...nobody moved to Cincinnati to work among the poor." That is why he deflates the comic-strip balloons that people who think they are humane so often utter: "Or as a well-known, full-grown socialite. Amanda Burden, said ... 'The sophistication of the baby blacks has made me rethink my attitudes.' " That is why he mocks the now pieties of the new morality: "Our eyes met, our lips met, our bodies met, and then we were introduced...
...state, as the majority opinion does, that those opposed to blanket abortion coverage should rethink their position and support the program is to ask those people, with a fair amount of insensitivity, to abdicate what they perceive as their moral responsibility and to bow to the wishes of the majority. The right of the minority to withhold both financial and moral support of abortion coverage should be respected, and safeguarded...
...least at first, are indignant. Alicia Kaye, office manager for a Los Angeles employment agency, reports that liberal-arts majors who are told of openings in insurance or secretarial work often retort: "Why should I take a $600-a-month job when I can collect unemployment benefits?" Others rethink their ambitions: Jackie Smith, a Boston College marketing major who is "shocked and amazed" not to find a job in business, has been a professional boxer for six years and is keeping in shape-just in case. There are graduates who grow frustrated and bitter, and there are those who accept...