Word: unpopularities
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...Parents of famous people were often hot partisans of unpopular causes. They were revolutionaries, civic reformers, Zionists, free-soilers, agnostics, abolitionists, objectors to infant damnation. Goertzel. riding his thesis hard, concludes that "the children frequently became eminent by adopting a parental point of view,-by fulfilling in action a parental daydream...
...consider the matter and added more than 1,000 amendments (among them: deputies doubled their living allowances, voted themselves four all-expense round trips to Rio every month). In the blithe realization that it will be Quadros who will have to whittle the monster budget down to unpopular reality, Kubitschek signed the document, and then proceeded to open the permanent civil service rolls to an estimated 10,000 cronies and party hacks...
...East lose their provincial outlook on college education, the sooner we can ease up the so-called admissions jam." Pittsburgh's Chatham College prides itself on nurturing diversity and "intelligent nonconformity" among students; President Edward D. Eddy Jr. suggests that a student candidate's having backed some "unpopular but worthwhile cause" is a good qualification for admission...
What is so curious about this deliberate withholding and suppression of information in almost every area of governmental operation is that--until this election--it was needless. With mandates in '52 and '56 so powerful that the men in the Eisenhower government could have told hard, unpopular truths to the American people, they chose instead to play insecure and intimidated roles. Unreasonably afraid of the people's reaction to any sort of bad news at home or abroad, they preferred deception, suppression of facts, and silence, to running the small political risk of being unpopularly right too soon...
Moody Regime. Since Gaullists worshipfully hail their leader as "mon general," Le Canard catches the mood of the regime with a whole series of possessive pronouns. Unpopular Premier Debré is referred to as "Mondebré" or "Monsatel-lite." When the French colonies disappointed De Gaulle in 1958 by choosing independence rather than autonomy within the French Community, a cartoon showed De Gaulle saying to Debré: "If you ask for independence, I'll explode...