Word: social
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...years ago, Truman Capote angered his friends in the Concorde set by serving gossip from their private stock to hoi polloi. Anyone with the price of four issues of Esquire magazine could oink over the deviances of their social betters. Each issue carried a "chapter" of what Capote promised would be his most important work. He called it Answered Prayers and described it as a novel-in-progress about New York and European high society...
...remembrance of things in the not-too-distant past suggests that Capote was in no physical or mental shape to fulfill his ambition. His introduction to Music for Chameleons (1980) refers to debilitating emotional problems and difficulties with alcohol and drugs. Social ostracism also left its mark, as did the strains of professional pride. Capote needed a success to match In Cold Blood, his so-called nonfiction novel published way back...
Pete du Pont hopes to distinguish himself as an iconoclast, a free-market conservative boldly willing to question sacrosanct social programs that his better-known rivals fear to address. He wants his ideas to speak for themselves, and loudly enough to drown out the murmurs about his patrimony. He has selected five issues that he believes can excite the electorate. It took the methodical du Pont two years to research and hone his message, and he has now compressed it neatly onto a single 3-in. by 5-in. card that he keeps in his breast pocket. Dispensing with...
...bishops, as well as priests and sisters involved in the local, day-to-day operation of the American church. Despite the concern of some conservative Catholics, there is little indication that the Pope is worried about the involvement of bishops and theologians in the antinuclear campaign and other social issues. But Rome has many other worries, particularly a growing personnel shortage, which could radically change the way the church's work is done...
...With his right-of-center views on foreign policy and military spending, Nunn would provide a counterweight to the seven current Democratic candidates, who are united in their opposition to contra aid and Ronald Reagan's Star Wars program. He has also taken a more moderate stance on many social issues, thus appealing to disaffected Democrats worried about their party's long love affair with various special-interest groups. Without Nunn in the race, the prevailing sentiment among centrist Democrats in the South (and perhaps elsewhere) may be "None of the Above...