Word: saint
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rambling minutes Nixon talked of his mother, "a saint," and his "old man," who had never amounted to much in the eyes of the world, but who was a great person nonetheless. No job is too humble, Nixon said, and the world needs good farmers, good businessmen, good plumbers, good carpenters. There was an uneasy stir in the room when he mentioned plumbers-the word for the intelligence team assigned to plug information leaks and handle illegal operations like the Watergate break-in-but Nixon seemed not to notice...
...YING-SHIH, Chinese historian: Gandhi, a religious saint of the highest moral principles, but also a political leader who worked for the rights of the depressed and disinherited classes. He had no personal greed for power but cared rather for the welfare of the people, using persuasion instead of violence, never allowing expediency to justify a deviation from the truth...
What kind of shock such a book must be for the Russians who manage to read it is difficult to imagine. For some, Stalin is still a hero. To most, Lenin is close to a political saint. Westerners -courtesy of cold war propaganda, a free press and honest scholarship-regard both men with varying degrees of repugnance. Even to them, much of the cruelty and stupidity will seem dreadful enough. Solzhenitsyn produces moments that are unbearable, breaking through all defenses that the mid-20th century reader is likely to have raised against being afflicted by the pain of others...
...m.p.h. collision, double the legal minimum, by receding into the body. The Bricklin's body is made of a corrosion-proof, vacuum-formed acrylic that is impregnated with color (Safety Red, Safety Green, etc.) rather than painted. Bricklin will put the new car, which is being made in Saint John, N.B., on sale in the Northeastern U.S. next month. He expects to make 1,000 cars a month initially, 100,000 a year eventually. But it remains for the consumer to determine whether Mal Bricklin is the new Henry Ford or his car is the next Edsel...
Even some prominent Enarques have doubts about the school. Says Jean Saint-Geours ('49), head of the state-owned Credit Lyonnais Bank: "It is bad for a diversified modern nation like France to be governed by people all formed in the same mold. E.N.A. graduates are brilliant, no doubt about it, but they've not worked much in factories or sold many ties in the street." Which could be useful experience for the truly well-rounded student bureaucrat...