Word: subverted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...prime historic target is revolutionary ideology, because of its power to subvert private conscience, encouraging men to see their fellow men as "insects" (Lenin's word) to be virtuously crushed for the good of the cause. It was in the name of Marxism-Leninism that the horrors of Gulag were visited upon the Russian people. The book is one of the most overwhelming attacks on the practical applications of that ideology ever written. What Solzhenitsyn urges in another remarkable document, Letter to the Soviet Leaders, is that the Soviet government abandon its ideology entirely...
...press did not invent these charges or inflate them out of proportion. The offenses already proved represent nothing less than an attempt to subvert the U.S. electoral system and then to hide the extent of that subversion. The argument, still widely heard, that all this was no more than dirty-politics-as-usual simply cannot be sustained by any halfway dispassionate student of the Watergate affair. Many of the offenders were public officials, men responsible for upholding the law in a law-and-order Administration. What the press did during the initial phase of Watergate, in addition to giving snapshots...
...telling a story, Author Lipsyte chronicles the progress of Liberty Two through the more complex eyes of David Cable, a former prizewinning journalist who attaches himself to Rice's crusade. Actually Cable is an undercover agent for a quasi-governmental research agency whose job is to penetrate and subvert radical groups. Cable is a remarkably scrupulous spy. He is burdened by doubt and guilt because his wife, child and girl friend have been killed in his line of duty. It does not take too much exposure to Rice's strength and magnetism to weaken Cable's loyalty...
...Chapin. Deep Throat then confirmed that the dirty-tricks group was funded by C.R.P. After Woodward and Bernstein's story on Segretti's spy-and-sabotage operation and the Chapin connection appeared on Oct. 15, 1972 ?showing how the President's men sanctioned a massive effort to subvert the election process?the meaning of Watergate became clearer. Write the authors: "The spreading stain of Watergate had finally seeped into the White House...
That result would leave a sizable, embittered, stubborn minority convinced that the media had hounded Richard Nixon out of office in order to upset the mandate of the 1972 vote and subvert what it believes to be the foundations of the Republic. On the other hand, suppose the House fails to impeach, or the Senate, judging a House-voted impeachment, fails to convict. With equal certainty that would leave a major segment of the constituency equally embittered and unreconciled, convinced that the Congress had placed political expediency above its duty. Does either outcome hold the slightest promise of domestic tranquillity...