Word: offhandedness
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Justice and fear. What modern politician would be bold enough to characterize foreign policy so starkly? "Behind every great fortune there is a crime," said Balzac. Behind every great nation too. Jefferson certainly wanted to do justice to the Indians. But he knew the white man needed to instill fear...
A day before he leaves for France and then a New York summit with President Clinton, Boris Yeltsin suggested that he would fire his longest-serving senior official, Foreign Minister Andrei Kozyrev. The statement, an almost offhanded response to a reporter's question, was widely interpreted as a capitulation to...
Offhanded portrayals of the mentally ill only add to the pain
To the extent that such a nationalism reflects social prejudices, the criticisms become self-contradictory. Lillian Chao, professor of English emeritus at National Taiwan University, fears that the spread of English is doing subtle damage. "China has always been a civilization of great politeness and courtesy," she says. "But now...
In half a dozen odd ways, time itself became a player in the campaign: time as past, time as future, time as duration, time as age. Reagan's 73 years was a factor against him. The nastier comics referred to it as "the drool factor." His mind wandered, some...