Word: wrongness
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Williams, however, added that something went wrong with the Social Democratic ideal, and opponents blamed it for the growth of big government, tremendous increases in public expenditure, exorbitant levels of inflation, and the overall decline of Western power...
...have held true. In his scatter-shot prose, punctuated by certain frequent references to what a brilliant guy he is, Bakshian tell us that Teddy Kennedy (who rates a total of 64 out of 100 points) will edge out Jimmy Carter (61) for the Democratic nomination. What has gone wrong? A combination of Kennedy's personal vulnerabilities and the situation in Iran has thrown the election into the president's corner, Bakshian says, but he's quick to add that "Carter has really been a disaster...
...Austria, the Basques and Catalan, Quebec, Western Australia, the South Island of New Zealand, even Puerto Rico, Alaska and the Pacific Northwest, patriots are going their separatist ways, he says. Some, perhaps those who reset their watches every spring with an easy conscience, might protest that this proves Toffler wrong, demonstrating that nation-states, far from extinction, are likely only to multiply. Instead, Toffler says, we will soon become a world governed by "an Oceans Matrix, a Space Matrix, a Food Matrix, a Transport Matrix, an Energy Matrix, and the like, all flowing into and out of one another...
Obviously Fundamentalists and Evangelicals who want to mix religion and politics would favor Carter or Anderson, right? Wrong. The most vocal ones, at least, find Reagan's conservatism almost irresistible. Says Richard Zone, executive director of a new political lobby called Christian Voice: "Reagan is not the best Christian that ever walked the face of the earth, but we really don't have a choice." His group slaps Anderson with a zero rating on 14 key "moral" issues, among them abortion, school prayer, a balanced budget and strong national defense. Christian Voice regards Carter as a "good...
...vast undertaking, and PBS station KCET had the wit to record the preparations in a funny, breezy documentary, Opening NightThe Making of an Opera. The camera roams in wig shops and rehearsal rooms, where Baritone Norman Mittelman after fluffing a line complains that the composer wrote it wrong. At the shaky dress rehearsal Kurt Herbert Adler, 75, the company's director, notes, at that late hour, that the chorus is posi tioned so that ticketholders on the right cannot see the action in a big scene...