Word: weal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...current radio activism also has elements of a Meet John Doe nightmare. The hosts have unique access to large constituencies, yet they often seem motivated as much by ratings as by the public weal: political protest sells. In their inflammatory zeal, moreover, they tend to offer simplistic, emotionally satisfying remedies for complex problems. "It's a desperate attempt to get ratings," says Michael Jackson, the longtime ABC TalkRadio host. "Rather than tackling an issue from many angles, ((the activist hosts)) would sooner be the little boys with the bugles leading the charge...
Giving criminals another chance is not just a favor to them, it is a favor to all of us. Society as whole benefits when they no longer commit crimes and, instead of being a burden on the system, begin to contribute to the common weal. Is the beastial treatment we currently afford to prisoners the best way, or even any at all, to reform them...
...find a weal ht of such stories in Royal Secrets, the latest addition to the library of behind-the-scenes books published since he 1981 wedding made the Royals into a worldwide fad. These recollections of Stephen Barry, Prince Charles' former valet, tell about the Buckingham Palace staff, the exhaustive preparations for all forms of Royal ceremonies, and inside chatter about the sheltered, affluent lifestyle of the world's richest people...
...disclosure law that Ferraro was suspected of bending is to prevent conflict of interest. There is no evidence that has occurred. Yet the disclosures made and (at first) refused almost destroyed Ferraro. The ethics laws so enthusiastically enacted post-Watergate, so confidently entrusted with protecting the public weal, can also undermine it. And not surprisingly, since they are based on an illusory faith in the redemptive power of institutional arrangements. Owing to their history, Americans suffer from this touching superstition more than most people. After all, the founding fathers did practically invent the separation of powers to prevent the accumulation...
Symphony Sid, was a disc jockey for a small dawn-to-dusk radio station in Roxbury or some such place. Its signal was so weal that even in ?Cambridge it cam in as quavering and erratic as a BBC message from Winston Churchill to the French Resistance. But I strained for the sound because for fifteen minutes every day just before signoff time, Symphony Sid broadcast a kind of music I had never heard before and was not to hear anywhere else for some time. Years before Elvis Presley tumbled America into moral crisis by appearing on the Ed Sullivan...