Word: scandalous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...York Times reporter covering the Iran-Contra scandal, Brinkley has a sound understanding of the motives that drive politicians to involve themselves and their nation in Nicaraguan politics. With this kind of background, it is no wonder that the strongest part of Brinkley's novel which details the events leading to an American invasion of Nicaragua--is the psychological characterizations of his players...
...Terrence Ascher, seeking his father's approval, to Rafael Mendoza, who is tired of America's condescending attitude towards his people, to Marine Eric Gustafson, smuggly certain that only U.S. intervention can save the incompetent Contras, Brinkley's characters are intended to reveal the psychological factors behind a government scandal...
RECENTLY, and seemingly always, Congress has drawn criticism for its lack of principle. From one scandal to the next, the institution has lumbered along, completely out of touch with the values of the people...
Oxford scholar Geza Vermes calls it "the academic scandal par excellence of the 20th century." Columbia University's Morton Smith protests that there is "no justification" for it. Fumes California State's Robert Eisenman: "We are tired of being treated contemptuously." Behind the scenes, scholars are exchanging bitter private letters and passing around bootlegged photos. What is all the fuss about? The protesters are referring to the long delay in making public many of the Dead Sea Scrolls, those mysterious documents discovered between 1947 and 1956 in caves 20 miles east of Jerusalem. As they see it, the world...
While Hwang's mother's family refused to do business with the Japanese, he says, "My father's father was something of a collaborator." Later on, in Taiwan, that grandfather went to jail in a financial scandal. Hwang's own father decided as a boy to leave China; as a younger son, he foresaw few opportunities, and as a believer in technology and progress, he was at odds with a traditional culture. After writing to Harvard and Yale for applications and receiving no reply, he wound up at Linfield College in Oregon. "When I was little," Hwang recalls, "my father...