Word: un-american
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...country is overwhelmingly pro-choice and Congress is skirting the problem rather than addressing the real issue, which is, Do women in this country have the right to make decisions about their own bodies?'" Yellin said. "[The gag rule] is un-American in its most basic sense...
Responsibility has become a word almost un-American in its connotations. Japanese executives symbolically step down when the good name of their company becomes besmirched. But the American style is to gut it out stubbornly, blame overzealous subordinates or no one in particular ("Mistakes were made") and equate resignation with personal culpability. Kennedy, to be sure, had become the personification of the Stanford scandal; the university's aggressive billing techniques had included calculating as research overhead such expenditures as the cost of sheets, flowers and antiques for the presidential residence. No one had accused Kennedy of personal gain or even...
Brownstein walks us through some of the early history: moguls sycophantically pursuing Presidents; Bogie and Bacall barnstorming for Adlai Stevenson; the Hollywood Ten and the House Committee on Un-American Activities; the unholy Jack Pack of Frank Sinatra and J.F.K. (Gary Hart and Warren Beatty being the more cerebral, 1980s version). Much of the book's second half deals with the travails of a coterie of wealthy Hollywood liberals -- from Norman Lear to Rob Lowe -- who are desperate to be taken seriously...
...totally un-American, in my opinion, to interfere with private property," said Denise Gilson, a member of the Small Property Owners Association (SPOA), which has picketed council meetings since last fall...
...when Marvin buys a TV station, and suggests it give as much air-time to peace organizations as it does to military news, Marvin goes too far. This economics professor who invests against optimism and supports peace is suddenly and vigorously condemned as un-American...