Remember that term Moynihan coined, "defining deviancy down"?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bill Maher: Americans Love Torture] Reference

Getty Images Nina Totenberg The most notorious example, noted by Reason's Michael Moynihan, is an old one.    From Wordnik.com.  [Standards and Practices] Reference

Mr. Moynihan is a senior editor of Reason magazine.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Defense] Reference

Lewis called Moynihan a humble, caring and intelligent leader.    From Wordnik.com.  [WCAX - Local News] Reference

This campaign has, to paraphrase Moynihan, defined racism down. trackback from your own site.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Asian Badger] Reference

The so-called Moynihan Report, written 40 years ago this month, was never meant for general distribution.    From Wordnik.com.  [Long After The Alarm Went Off] Reference

Moynihan is an artist and a curator.    From Wordnik.com.  [Telegraph Article on Victorian Erotica « Skid Roche] Reference

“‘In a few days, I’m going to announce I’m not running for another term,’” Mr. Schumer recalled Moynihan saying.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ex-Schumer Rumor, Governor; New One, President Chuck!] Reference

Moynihan says: Guns do not kill people, bullets do.    From Wordnik.com.  [Are We 'A Nation Of Cowards'?] Reference

How many does Moynihan, onetime hawk, think we need?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Brain And The Pig Trough] Reference

"We could revert to a caste society," says Moynihan.    From Wordnik.com.  [Endangered Family] Reference

Moynihan told Kerrey that he might be president some day.    From Wordnik.com.  [Whew!] Reference

Moynihan was denounced as insensitive, perhaps even racist.    From Wordnik.com.  [Long After The Alarm Went Off] Reference

Like Moynihan, her greatest value might be in her current job.    From Wordnik.com.  [Looking for Mr. or Ms. Right] Reference

"Nobody seemed to understand the implications," Moynihan recalls.    From Wordnik.com.  [Entering The Capital Of Hell] Reference

Pat Moynihan, dead at 76, was America's foremost public intellectual.    From Wordnik.com.  [2003: Not In Our Interests] Reference

Clinton's promise of welfare reform "drove our election," Moynihan says.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Brain And The Pig Trough] Reference

And I can tell you, he was no piker when it came to dealing with Moynihan.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jun 14, 2008] Reference

But the only way Moynihan will try to close them is if Clinton wants him to.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Brain And The Pig Trough] Reference

Moynihan and Packwood are working up a bill that would finesse employer mandates.    From Wordnik.com.  [Health Care Trouble] Reference

"New York politics is a study in the art of subtlety," said a former Moynihan aide.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conventional Wisdom] Reference

Never a true believer in health reform, Moynihan is highly mercurial and independent.    From Wordnik.com.  [Health Care Trouble] Reference

No serious scholar argues that the trends Moynihan highlighted were essentially for the best.    From Wordnik.com.  [Long After The Alarm Went Off] Reference

Senator Moynihan, Senator Schumer has said she doesn't have an anti-semitic bone in her body.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript - CNN Late Edition: Speculation Abounds as Bush Narrows Choices for Running Mate - July 23, 2000] Reference

Moynihan notes that about half the American people have incomes or benefits indexed to the CPI.    From Wordnik.com.  [Inflation Inflated] Reference

Yet the truth is that Moynihan was on to something -- just not precisely what he thought he was.    From Wordnik.com.  [Long After The Alarm Went Off] Reference

Go see a movie, Moynihan told his friend, whose favorite novel is Walker Percy's "The Moviegoer.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Whew!] Reference

That leaves Moynihan with little leeway to clean up the pig trough that is the Senate Finance Committee.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Brain And The Pig Trough] Reference

Moynihan can hardly be faulted for not foreseeing the implications of the data floating before his eyes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Long After The Alarm Went Off] Reference

For now, Moynihan says that he will do nothing more than try to prevent "old loopholes from corning back.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Brain And The Pig Trough] Reference

Instead, Moynihan learned that some subjects were simply not to be broached -- not by certain people, anyway.    From Wordnik.com.  [Long After The Alarm Went Off] Reference