Word: spokenness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have enormous egos, tremendous ambition, a great deal of moral flexibility, and the same kind of little boy attitude?'Look, Ma, I'm dancing.' "Other critics feel that Moynihan is so intoxicated by ideas that he is apt to skitter along from one to another. Moynihan in turn has spoken scathingly of his fellow intellectuals, in whom he diagnoses a failure of nerve. On one occasion he parodied the plea brought to Nixon by a group of antiwar college presidents: "If you don't end poverty, racism and the war right now, we'll ... hold our breaths until we turn...
...When he believes in something, said Mayer's wife Betty, a petite, soft-spoken woman, "he's so convincing that he carries other people along with...
...government's displeasure reflected, in part, a growing mood of anti-American nationalism in Canada. Porter became the target of this feeling because, with the prior approval of the State Department, he had spoken a few truths about tensions in Canadian-U.S. relations. At about the same time the White House was announcing the nomination of Assistant Secretary of State Thomas Enders to succeed him, Porter threw a small cocktail party for a dozen Canadian and American reporters. At the party, he observed that Congressmen in U.S. Border states were unhappy about the price of imported Canadian...
...taught to behave in a certain way, to go to certain schools or camps and get along at them in a certain way, because that is what a healthy, welladjusted, "successful" child or youth manages to do. One mother, the wife of a well-to-do lawyer, has spoken to me repeatedly of her concern for her children. She knows they will probably find reasonably worthwhile jobs or professions when they are older. But she wants more from them-high competence, excellence, repeated demonstrations of academic and social success, because, of all things, such achievements would "prove" that the children...
...qualities, then one must find them in private schools. If a particular community cannot provide what the child "needs," one must move elsewhere, or turn to various levels of political authority in urgent protest. If one book fails, or one educational philosophy, or one guru's written or spoken words, we do not become apathetic or skeptical or wryly amused; we do not turn to ourselves, and assume our own sovereignty, so to speak, as human beings who have a right, even an obligation, to hold on to certain ethical propositions, beliefs, standards-even at a sacrifice. Rather...