Word: seldomly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...real life, the "box of chocolates" line is seldom enough. And then Gumpism risks devolving quickly into a mindless, heartless conservatism where, if the next guy over is having a rough time of it, it's not because America has failed to grapple with the real and complex problems that face it -- it's probably because he isn't sufficiently upbeat. Or not decent enough. Lacks family values. Reads insufficiently of the Book of Virtues...
...begins pressuring Congress to act. The all-or-nothing strategy, however, causes moderate Democrats like Breaux, whose support for a final bill is critical, to shake their head. "Legislating is finding the middle," he says. "You can't transfer an all-or-nothing strategy into the legislative process. It seldom works...
Charleston, South Carolina, has always been a city of two tales -- one white, the other black, running parallel, sometimes clashing but seldom touching. That is one reason why Ruthie Bolton's Gal: A True Life (Harcourt Brace; 275 pages; $19.95) is such a remarkable book, for it is the result of an unlikely collaboration between two writers -- one black and unpublished, the other white and well established. Gal is also remarkable as that one-in-a-million unsolicited manuscript that actually gets published. But most impressive is the book itself...
...equal-opportunity lampoonist, Stamaty, 46, joyfully skewers both ends of the political spectrum and all points in between. His best-known character, Bob Forehead, is an earnest, airheaded Congressman who resembles John F. Kennedy, spouts conservative shibboleths and has seldom had a thought that didn't come straight from his political handlers...
Unsurprisingly, Wills' military exemplar is the young Napoleon Bonaparte, whose dazzling early victories were based on mobility and constant attack. His antitype is the dithering Union general George McClellan, who seldom met a battle he couldn't find reason to avoid. The paradigm for politics is George Washington, who orchestrated history's most successful transition from monarchy to republicanism. Washington's achievement, as Wills sees it, was to bring "legal rule out of the false dilemma posed in revolutionary times -- either charisma or chaos." Wills' political antitype is Oliver Cromwell, who became as regal as Charles I, the Stuart king...