Word: distorted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...leaflets circulated by these extremists who have dwelt among us in recent years, bent an slandering an institution it might have been assumed they would love, or lovingly find fault with, without discovering a single effort to clarify, to analyze, to explain or honestly to represent. Always they insinuate, distort, accuse, their aim being not to identify and correct real abuses, but always rather by crying alarm intentionally to arouse and inflame passions in order to build support for "non-negotiable demands," and by this means, to enlarge their following and enhance their power. Clearly the old McCarthy technique...
From Arizona, where he was making a commencement address shortly before he left HEW, Finch hit back, saying that the charges "grossly distort the position of this Administration in the mental-health area." Furthermore, he declared, "Dr. Yolles has consistently shown a complete unwillingness to cooperate in this department's planning for more effective mental-health programs. Rarely, if ever, did he deign to participate or communicate with others in the department in efforts to bring better help to the mentally...
...military men and what he called "the metal eaters"?the managers of heavy industry. But while Khrushchev tried, often unsuccessfully, to keep the military men on relatively short rations, Brezhnev may feel obliged to keep them well fed in exchange for their recent backing. That would further distort the economy, already heavily oriented toward military needs, and the very quality of Russian life as well. As TIME Correspondent Jerrold Schecter cabled from Moscow: "Guns have been built at the expense not only of butter but also of soap, toilet paper, furniture, dishes, flatware and household appliances. There remain glaring...
...mass of the public may prove resistant to change, but that inertia is the critical variable. The public provides the climate, if not the specific cues, in which the government sets policy. That climate determines how well the ministry party pulls together on crucial issues. Crossman's focus would distort the decision-making process: consensus is needed in the party, coercion in the nation. He underestimates the multiple centers of power which prevail in a pluralist democratic electorate...
...Jews who are ordinarily strangers to picket lines would answer that their consciences demanded loud protest. In fact, compared with other recent demonstrations, these were small and extremely orderly. Booing Pompidou, of course, is only part of a larger question: at what point does the emotional pull of Jerusalem distort the consideration of foreign policy in the U.S.? Is there what might be called a Jewish foreign policy...