Word: scandal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sooner had Cairns come within reach of the top than his decline began. Last week Whitlam sacked his second in command in the midst of the worst political scandal in Australia's history. At issue were charges that associates of Cairns had used their influence to seek foreign loans for the government that would have brought them millions of dollars in commissions...
...problems and falling popularity. Only two weeks ago, it lost a by-election for a seat in Tasmania that it had held for 21 years. As a result, Whitlam's slender majority in the lower house has been reduced to three. Many political observers are predicting the financial scandal may well be the "extraordinary circumstances" that opposition Liberal and Country parties Leader Malcolm Fraser said he would need to take the country to the polls later this year...
...only one interest of the philosopher-"whose trade it is not to do any thing, but to observe every thing." Accordingly, he discusses the intellectual underpinnings of government, education, religion, even artistic freedom (the state, he wrote, should give "entire liberty to all those who . . . would attempt, without scandal or indecency, to amuse and divert the people by painting, poetry, music, dancing"). Among his opinions...
...both fantastic and poetically convincing, the members of a suburban upper-middle-class family combine and change in the undertow of events. As if Clarence Day had written Future Shock into Life with Father, Doctorow's images and improvisations foreshadow the 20th century's coming preoccupation with scandal, psychoanalysis, solipsism, race, technological power and megalomania...
...takeoff on Dada art," he says. "I didn't set out to create an art form, although I think it has become one." What he did set out to do was to "inject vitality and fun onto the national scene after the dark years of war and scandal...