Word: claptrap
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Freedom of the press is a precious right. Without it, Americans would be fed claptrap by bureaucrats, who would be their only source of information. When I hear the public lambasting the press, I shudder...
Reagan's sermonizing before the Evangelicals is a dangerous mix of electioneering hooey and religious claptrap. As Sidey makes clear in his story, the U.S. is a pluralistic nation whose impressive strength derives from its being an open marketplace for ideas and opinions. The country does not need to hear pious bray and howl from the occupant in the White House. It needs to have that marketplace responsibly guarded...
...recognition of the PLO), and then call for negotiations without preconditions over the future of the West Bank. Such an action is, of course, entirely improbable, since all the protestations heard from the PLO about its truly peaceful intentions are, much like Mr. Bisharat's letter, self-righteous claptrap. Eric Stecket...
...source can be blamed for what Sears called the "endless claptrap of polls, debates, who's on first and how you can win," it is the Dukakis camp. Having worked so hard for so long, and having amassed so large a lead, they are nervously trying to coast past the election. All they want, in the words of many observes, is to wake up and have it be November 3. And while understandable, this sentiment has led to a frustratingly cautions campaign...
...History of Science, who wrote the study with the American Friends Service Committee, begins his discussion of Israel's occupation of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. But the analysis of the Arab Israeli/Palestinian conflict, which occupies half of this work, isn't an exercise in ideological claptrap. Serious questions surface and so do concrete solutions. On the Palestinian question, Mendelsohn urges the implementation of the U.N. Security Council Resolution 242, which calls for Israel to relinquish occupied territories, recognize the P.L.O.--which in turn would recognize Israel--and accept the establishment of a Palestinian state...