Word: faint
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When it finally became apparent that the trek was back on, the Trekkies and Trekkers greeted the news with mixed emotions. (For the uninitiated, Trekkies wear Spock ears, hound the actors for autographs, and faint if they see Leonard Nimoy in person. Trekkers publish fanzines and write doctoral theses on the show, hound the writers for autographs, and sneer when they mention Trekkies.) Both species were hopeful but anxious, afraid that a film flop would ruin the memory of the series...
...left (and the right) an appetite for self-righteous hatred and self-dramatizing "unmaskings." In these individuals, the urge to feed this appetite has grown stronger than the impulse to honestly scrutinize the object of the attack to see if it is warranted. Sociobiology has a few faint and superficial resemblances to "Social Darwinism," as far as I can tell, limited to the use of the term "Darwinism." Every other aspect is profoundly different. They bear the same relationship to each other as phrenology does to neuroanatomy. Anyone of candid intellect would have, on the basis of a few moments...
Georgescu's message to Romanian intellectuals is "to speak out: intellectuals have the duty to speak up when they are there." There is a faint hope given by a few courageous dissidents, but in general the prospects for changes are just plain bad. "The only way is to leave," he concludes...
...riptides generated by slavery, Pierce desperately sought the mushy middle ground. He sat there while Kansas was torn apart in bloody raids Pierce was judged almost irrelevant to his times, a national feeling that has a faint but disturbing echo in Jimmy Carter's first three years. Nathaniel Hawthorne unwittingly (or maybe not) devastated his old friend in a letter "Frank, I pity you," Hawthorne wrote, the worst thought one can have about an active politician...
Giscard's sharp decline in popularity has fueled rumors that he may soon replace Barre. "He is an honest man, above all suspicion," Giscard responded when asked about Barre on a television interview. Coming from the President, who had lauded Barre as "the best economist in France," that faint praise appeared to signal a new arm's-length distance between the President and his Premier...