Word: unpopularity
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...political gambit, the method is tried and true. If you are an unpopular Vice President, refurbish your image by deriding an occupational group with an even lower approval rating than your own. Spiro Agnew popularized the ploy back in 1969 with his bitter denunciations of the news media. Following the same playbook, Vice President Dan Quayle -- a lawyer -- wangled an invitation to the American Bar Association convention in Atlanta and last week used the forum to mount a blistering attack on the legal profession...
...cruel hostage game that is constantly being played out in the Middle East, a large measure of cool calculation always underlies the apparent madness. Western pawns are seized and sometimes killed in direct retaliation for unpopular arrests, military strikes or political slights against governments in the region. Those who are released have been quietly bartered either for tangible rewards -- weapons, cash -- or for subtle political and economic gains -- the enhancement of a regime's credibility, the restoration of diplomatic relations with a Western power, the exchange of prisoners...
...homophobic and therefore deserved severe punishment. To be sure, Hoagland got his teaching job at Bennington back after an investigation showed that the college's literature department had "deviated from proper recruitment procedures" in giving him the boot. Nonetheless, there is a chilling effect. "Essayists have always been unpopular because they think for themselves," Hoagland told the Boston Globe. "I don't think the gravity of this issue has sunk in. Nationwide and at Bennington, I don't think the lesson's been learned...
...these, our first patriots, freedom of speech, even jarring, unpopular speech, was a right worth dying for. Paine upheld "the right of every man to his opinion, however different that opinion may be to mine." Franklin said, "Without freedom of thought there can be no such thing as . . . publick liberty." Jefferson believed "uniformity of opinion" was no more desirable than uniformity "of face and stature." Staid George Washington warned against "the impostures of pretended patriotism...
Free of cancer, his economic themes set into a book, Tsongas gathered his family in the early part of the year and told them he wanted to run. No other Democrat, he was convinced, would risk the unpopular economic argument that had to be made. But if a single member of his family objected, Tsongas would drop the idea. His wife, a vibrant woman with a law practice of her own, urged him to do it. She would help. His daughters agreed...