Word: shrift
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Well thank you for letting us know. Actually most of what happened since 1945 is given short shrift in this book as Mandelbaum focuses on the strategic role played by Kennedy and McNamara in the nuclear debate. But though Mandelbaum manages to give a fairly competent review of the bare bones of the strategic disputes of the Kennedy administration, he persists in understanding policy development as the province of a very few, very talented men. Thank heaven for the best and the brightest...
...welter of recriminations, sadly enough, a crucial OAU report warning of "impending disaster" for Africa's deteriorating economies was given short shrift. The perfunctory debate over the study, which recommended the creation of a Common Market for the continent, tended to justify a sad remark by Liberian President William Tolbert. Most issues, concluded the OAU host and conference chairman, had been "decisively unaddressed...
...looming shadow of energy, in short, all the other problems are bound to be given short shrift. This time, as one Administration official put it, "all the delegates will be on one side of the table -and the problem of energy will be on the other side...
...story's truly exciting figures (Charles Colson, John Ehrlichman, H.R. Haldeman, Bud Krogh) get such short shrift that it is often hard to tell them apart; they are interchangeable ciphers in a series of look-alike scenes. Pat Nixon (Cathleen Cordell) is a walk-on role, and Martha Mitchell is not even mentioned. The show has a surprisingly in consistent attitude toward the casting of famous faces. Ehrlichman (Graham Jarvis) and John Mitchell (John Randolph) vaguely resemble their real-life counter parts, but many of their White House cronies do not. This indecision extends right up to the stars...
...Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery, the famous faces are re-created in the crude broad strokes of Halloween masks; ABC rightly assumes that TV's chosen audience, the young, won't know the difference. Of all the Big Names the one who gets the shortest shrift is Mamie...