Word: suspicions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Ever since Stalin's police chiefs conducted mass purges of government and party officials in the late 1930s, Soviet political leaders have regarded any overly ambitious security chief with suspicion. Still, if there is anyone who could persuade the Kremlin elite to put aside their apprehensions, Andropov may be the man. The reason: in his 15 years as KGB chief, Andropov has prevented the secret police from terrorizing the leadership as it did during the Stalin years...
That which does not kill us makes us I stronger." When a movie begins with G. Gordon Liddy's favorite quotation from Nietzsche, the suspicion arises that somebody may be taking the enterprise a trifle too seriously. That's especially so when we know the title character is not borrowed from anyone's list of the great books, but from Weird Tales, a pulp magazine of the 1930s, and owes his continued life to comic books and paperback originals. Nostalgia for creatures from the black lagoon of adolescent fantasy, even a certain wry affection, is permissible...
...most tastes, can be given additional unsavoriness by truncation: pol. By prefacing liberal and conservative with ultra or arch, both labels can be saddled with suggestions of inflexible fanaticism. To speak of a pacifist or peacemaker as a peacenik is, through a single syllable, to smear someone with the suspicion that he has alien loyalties. The antifeminist who wishes for his (or her) prejudice to go piggyback on his (or her) language will tend to speak not of feminists but of fern-libbers. People with only limited commitments to environmental preservation will tend similarly to allude not to environmentalists...
...liberals, in their current period of exile, should make up for years of neglecting crime by creating their own agenda for reform, a program that suggests more than just eliminating poverty. The Left can do this without abandoning its traditional and fully admirable commitments--concern for the weak, suspicion of the strong, and respect for Constitutional rights. But just as surely the Left must be receptive to ideas that may offend delicate sensibilities though still stay within the bounds of the law. Herewith then are several ideas for a new liberal program on crime...
Chairman Bennett is hardly complaining. "The budget proposed for '83," he says, "is a substantial amount of money. We can still do a large number of things." But in his four months in office, Bennett, 39, has aroused the suspicion of the arts and humanities constituencies around the country that the NEH will begin to reflect the partisan conservative attitudes of his political sponsors...