Word: swifts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sole consolation left by the Watergate affair may be deceptive. For public opinion mobilizes less effectively in some cases than others, and firestorms gather slowly over arcane or complex issues. Secrecy or distance shrouds excessive power from its best restraint. And if a President's action is swift enough, decisive enough, reactive outcry may be too late. Allende could benefit from no fire-storm, when the Nixon White House contributed to his downfall...
...Maybe Harvard could take a hint from this and put wallpaper in the rooms," said Randy Young '86, adding. "They could at least hire Loretta Swift as an Expos teacher...
...course Harvard's system has critics who question some of the hows and whys of the Ad Board's closed-door proceedings. Yet Princeton's system makes Harvard's seem more than tolerable. Harvard has no explicit honor code, though it of course encourages academic honesty and deals swift punishment to discovered plagiarists and cheats. But its methods lack the problems inherent in Princeton's student-run system...
...denouement was jarring in its swift resolution and therefore a bit surreal. Nearly 800 days after the Watergate breakin, 289 days after the Saturday Night Massacre, 97 days after the White House transcripts were released, twelve days after the Supreme Court voted, 8 to 0, that the President must surrender 64 more tapes, five days after the House Judiciary Committee voted out articles of impeachment, Nixon's defenses finally vanished. On Monday he issued the June 23, 1972, transcript that amounted to a confession to obstruction of justice and to lying to the American people. With that his clock...
When coats were stowed under seats, house lights extinguished, the audience was shown the exterior of a large New England home, a portico of deathly paleness only partially masking the building's sepulchral grey face. Here dwell the Mannons. With swift, sure strokes a long story is told...