Word: ruthless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...many to appeal to "the darker impulses of the American spirit" -a sin that he was unwise enough to ascribe to Lyndon Johnson last month. Said a Los Angeles housewife last week, after switching her voting registration to Democrat so that she could vote against Bobby: "He is dogmatic, ruthless, dangerous, and as phony as an $18 bill...
Nostalgia is recollection in tranquillity, and it tends to tell the past the way it wasn't. The friendly Cossacks of Fiddler on the Roof are light-years away from the cavalrymen who conducted the ruthless pogroms of turn-of-the-century Russia. Nor were the flocks of immigrants, herded through Ellis Island, the ebullient innocents who people The Education of H*Y*M*A*N K*A*P*L*A*N. Both shows lean heavily on their Jewish orientation, but where Fiddler is a folk musical of size and substance, Kaplan is a minimusical of sweetness...
...Washington Star was obviously resigned to Kennedy. "This was a ruthless performance," noted the paper, "but politics is a ruthless business." Echoed Atlanta Constitution Columnist Ralph McGill: "It will do no good to cry opportunist at Senator Kennedy. He is an opportunist-and he had better be! In politics, opportunism is the name of the game." San Francisco Chronicle Columnist Art Hoppe wrote an allegory in which the Gentle Knight (McCarthy) jousts the old king (L.B J) to a standstill, only to be shouldered aside by the Young Knight (R.F.K.) who has won over the crowd with words not deeds...
...19th century system whereby each nation set the value of its currency by weight of gold, and guaranteed to convert paper money to bullion on demand. Honoring that commitment forced nations into ruthless de flations, panics, recessions. Under today's gold-exchange standard, which was evolved in the '20s to economize on the need for the metal, central banks hold some reserves in foreign currencies convertible to gold (such as the dollar). -Tinkering daily with the price of gold during the months before that, F.D.R. liked to decide on a figure in a huddle with Acting Treasury Secretary...
...more personal terms, events were passing him by. Kennedys are supposed to stand for courage; the antiwar parade marshaled by a lonely Gene McCarthy was trampling that profile. To be accused of being both gutless and ruthless would be too much. Gradually, he came to the chilling conclusion that if he did not move now, he would grow old in the Senate, for which he has little love, or in private life, in which he has little experience...