Word: specters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...school, despite codes of honor. But to have it reach the proportions suggested in the recent investigations strikes deep at a moral core. Are the lines between right and wrong, the lines between power and impotence, between success and failure so blurred that any means justifies the end? The specter of T.S. Eliot's "hollow men" looms over our Bicentennial...
Nignogs. Wearing black robes and glaring malevolently at the defendants, Prosecutor Monteiro tried to interject strident political notes. With seeming deliberation, he failed to correct his witnesses when they kept referring to the mercenaries, most of whom were British, as "the Americans." Raising the specter of racism, he asked one defendant: "Isn't it true you referred to black Angolans between yourselves as nignogs?" Answered the prisoner firmly: "Sir, we never once used that name." Monteiro also arranged for a courtroom film show that featured clips of President Ford denying that the U.S. was training mercenaries, followed by gruesome...
...leader of the city's Jewish community. What those radars are picking up, of course, is the orbiting presidential candidacy of Jimmy Carter. How America's Jews are going to respond to him has been of concern for Carter campaign strategists. They are troubled by the specter of 1972, when Jews-like other traditional Democrats-deserted Democratic Presidential Nominee George McGovern in droves. Instead of polling over 80% of the Jewish vote, as John Kennedy (1960) and Hubert Humphrey (1968) did, and 90%, as Lyndon Johnson (1964) did, McGovern cornered only around...
That feat may have been the most important of Rosovsky's term so far--by the spring of '73 the Faculty deficit had expanded so greatly that the terrifying (for University administrators) specter of paying off bills through liquidation of endowment was a real possibility. Taken to an extreme conclusion, the situation meant the end of the Faculty...
...third member of the Christian Democratic team, feisty former Premier Amintore Fanfani, 68, seldom makes such admissions. Fanfani's assignment is to raise the specter of fear over a Communist approach to power. At Grosseto and again at Benevento, he intimated that the party should have been outlawed: "Communism has always taken advantage of liberty to crush it once power is achieved-and it might have been better if we had not allowed them to take that road." In that way, the Christian Democrats hope to pick up votes from supporters of such smaller parties as the Liberals...