Word: uninhibitedness
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Riegle's judgments may be questionable, but his irascibility is uninhibited by any concern for political expedience. He describes the men around Nixon as "unprincipled sons of bitches." He is instinctively antiEstablishment. Riegle was doing well as a promising junior computer executive for IBM until he was sent home...
He underlined the importance of uninhibited academic freedom by noting that members of Congress "rely on scholars who have some independent access to...information" relevant to foreign policy-making, which, he said, is now largely controlled by the executive branch.
Among the social functions performed by poverty, says Gans, is the guarantee of status to the nonpoor. The working class needs the poor to look down on; the aristocracy, by busying itself with settlement houses and charity balls, justifies its existence and proves its superiority to workers who grub for...
"He worries about the lack of restraint in a divided and contentious nation. So much so, in fact, that he has chosen to use the prestige of his high office to speak out on the troubling issues that transcend politics. He derives much of his inspiration from American history, and...
In challenging existing political magazines, a newcomer has about as much chance of success as a New Leftist taking over National Review. The odds against survival are so great that only an editor with a strong, fixed idea, uninhibited by the conventional wisdom of his field, would test them. In...