Word: tilting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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From where we are now, 1960 looks just as Edenic as 1952 had: a time when a candidate could have run on pure optimism. We were smack in the middle of a full-tilt boom, with steady growth, full employment, no inflation, balanced federal budgets as a matter of course, a constantly rising standard of living, low crime rates, stable families. Yet over our heads, Sputnik was circling the earth, an implacable Soviet Union seemed to be on the offensive, and the worry was powerful enough to encourage John Kennedy to run for President warning of America's shrinking prestige...
...Kilson now distinguishes between the antebellum "institutionalizing perpetrators of slavocracy" and the rest of us perpetrators.) I have rejected being labeled such a perpetrator, and for this Kilson calls me "arrogant." I do not know what epithet I will merit for denying any "arrogance with a neo-White supremacist tilt to it," but I am unlikely to respond again, to a tenured Harvard professor or anyone else...
Indeed, Jeffrey Vanke is even arrogant about his belief that Christian forgiveness should ensue without obligatory evidence that the perpetrators of cruel inhumanity have undertaken a viable redeeming process--an arrogance with a neo-White supremacist tilt to it, I daresay. This arrogance rejects the slightest reflection upon the principle of a reciprocity imperative--a principle Jeffrey Vanke dismisses with a certain sneering and mocking tone no less...
Deena A. Shore '96, a former Hillel Annual Event Coordinator and steering committee member, says she thinks there has been a definite tilt toward Conservatism...
More telling is the tilt to his commercials, which have gone negative long before the first sign of snow. Among his ads blanketing New Hampshire and Iowa, one is the sharpest attack so far against Dole; it accuses the Senator of voting for 16 tax increases in the past 13 years, a charge that nettled Dole when Forbes himself made it in a cnn debate two weeks ago in Florida...