Word: hideously
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Peace, real peace with the absence of the hideous nuclear threat. That dream hangs out there beyond the fingertips of this President as it has all the others. It seems sometimes to recede just about the moment a President thinks it is in his grasp. Yes, he said, once the new negotiations begin he will concentrate heavily on arms control. "There will be constant communication about what is being said," Reagan declared. "And decisions will have to be made about what is a fair trade or not. My one principle about the talks is that we will not send negotiators...
...emotion when he discussed the Popieluszko case and Western charges that he had been involved in the murder. "No one is more interested than we are that no unclear elements remain in this case. Such doubts do harm to the Polish authorities," he said. The leader declared that the "hideous crime" had been investigated with "energy and firmness" and that the investigation had already "dug deeply into the internal-affairs apparatus and uncovered a rotten cell...
...Russell Long, Illinois Congressman Danny Rostenkowski and Oklahoma Congressman James Jones. After the turkey and pumpkin pie, Reagan should take his goblet of Cabernet Sauvignon and ask everyone there to pledge himself to a great legislative crusade to reform the tax system, raise revenue, cut spending and banish those hideous deficits. For that kind of commitment, the American people would surely give thanks...
...precursors of the modern Mafia were the compagnie d'armi, small private armies that feudal overlords employed to enforce their authority. In the absence of law courts, these armies dispensed a hideous kind of primitive justice. Peasants who found a corpse with a hand chopped off knew that a petty thief had been punished. A body with severed genitals stuffed in his mouth meant that the dead man had "offended" the wife of a compagnie member. A missing tongue signified that someone had violated the code of omerta, or silence...
Shklar concedes that intolerable private vices may well unmask their public faces under liberalism, but argues that this poses less of a problem than any solution fear might dictate. She insists it's all within a liberal's range. Hypocrisy, hideous in its private forms, might well be necessary in a liberal democracy where politics is half persuasion, and the arts. It is the price we pay for social mobility, just as the exclusivity of cliques are the necessary outcome of a free society's overwhelming diversity. The message: better to be ambiguous in our freedom than fixed...