Word: scoundrels
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Strapped with such ideological baggage, Bork now must claim that as a Supreme Court justice he would at times feel bound to uphold decisions he criticized as an academic. Then again, his equivocations last week under the klieg lights could simply be the last refuge of a jurisprudential scoundrel seeking confirmation before a largely hostile Senate...
...weaknesses of an extended emotional purge: intensity, authenticity, flashes of black humor, a tendency to camp on obsessions and nurse the morose. Le Carre's job is not easy. In order finally to put his father to rest with forgiveness and love, he must first disinter the scoundrel, who died in 1975. Draped in the same checkered past as Ronald Cornwell, Rickie Pym makes darting appearances as an amoral charmer whose lies and bad debts foreshadow the more convoluted betrayals of his son Magnus...
...super-hecklers thought that the hapless audience might have been persuaded by the scoundrel, so they took it upon themselves to protect the innocents. This kind of political elitism has no place in a free society with mass education, let alone in a university...
...fact that the Egyptians were stalling Moscow on concluding a long-sought treaty of friendship designed to bind Cairo firmly into an alliance. A friend told me, "Opinions are beginning to solidify in the leadership that we have to be rid of (Egyptian President Anwar) Sadat. Sadat is a scoundrel. The only problem is that we don't have a really strong figure to take over from him. But there are some possibilities...
...Patriotism," said Dr. Johnson just as the American Revolution was beginning, "is the last refuge of a scoundrel." At about the same time, Dr. Pangloss was giving optimism a bad name too. "In this best of all possible worlds," said the Voltaire character, "all is for the best." But those impulses, patriotism and optimism, are prominent and connected in the American psyche. The idea of manifest destiny carried both to a bellicose extreme; Franklin Roosevelt, when he insisted that the nation had nothing to fear but fear itself, expressed the linkage beautifully. Patriotic trappings took on particular importance...