Word: odium
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...White House, they quickly slide over the hundred days odium. Aides refer instead to the year's "first quarter," as if the Administration were a corporation. The first quarter of this new business was logically concerned with organization and getting acquainted (Nixon's visits to Government agencies, his trip to Europe, his televised news conferences). All this Nixon has accomplished with decency if not grace, with competence if not brilliance. In a world and nation grown weary of a looming Uncle Sam and a volcanic Johnson, the new pace is comforting to many...
...Suzman says that her basic function is to keep a toe-hold in Parliament, kep the channels of information open, and try to counter the reactionary trend in South Africa. The conflict in Vietnam has taken much of the world attention and odium away from the regime in South Africa, but Mrs. Suzman hopes to keep a minimum of pressure on the government until inflation forces the Afrikaners into economic integration...
...administration can pursue a more constructive alternative to bombing the north by trying to reconstruct the south. This will still involve casualties but at less risk of world war and with a chance of somewhat diminishing the international odium we have brought upon ourselves. While our barbarity merely rouses fear and hatred that we can learn to live with, our psychological miscalculation seems stupid. Stupidity in a leader arouses distrust in followers all around the world...
...made noises designed to encourage opposition to Diem. But South Viet Nam being what it is, potential rebels did not want to move without virtually a written contract for U.S. support. Meanwhile the U.S. tried to place the odium of the crackdown on Diem's brother, Ngo Dinh Nhu (Libra),* and new Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge (Cancer) managed to suggest, without saying anything publicly, that he did not like what was going...
...Borstal prison at Ruxton Towers. The place is a stately old home landscaped with barbed wire (Sillitoe's way of saying "this sceptered isle"). Smith, son of a factory worker, is the natural enemy of the Establishment. He is a convicted burglar who feels no guilt, only odium. The one thing he can do well is run. The warden (Michael Redgrave) trains him as the long-distance runner who will triumph for the Borstal prison in the first sports day ever arranged between the boy convicts and the amiable young gentry from a nearby school. But this only sets...