Word: candidate
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...brilliant choices in most situations.") At 47, he conveys an impression of boundless energy in search of new elections, new impact. Indeed, what distinguishes Garth from other political consultants is his influence on some clients after they have won and his immersion in their campaigns. He plots the candidates' advertising, with emphasis on television, and gives them candid advice on issues, strategy and other weighty matters (Koch lost 15 Ibs. at Garth's suggestion...
...discredited cancer drug Laetrile, she insists: "At best it is an expensive and cruel hoax. At worst it is dangerous." She rails against the phony cheerfulness of some visitors to desperately ill patients: "Distraction isn't what's needed. Perception is." She advises the ailing to be candid as well but reminds them of Hemingway's definition of courage as "grace under pressure." To relieve physical discomfort, she encourages friends to help on the simplest level: "Cook a meal, do the dishes, mend what needs to be mended, water the plants, answer the phone." To a woman...
Rosen quotes a local psychoanalyst who defines psychobabble as "just a way of using candor in order not to be candid" or, in other words, a vocabulary of terms lifted from psycho-analytic theory and popularized into meaninglessness. Think, for example, how often you use the words paranoid, fixation, neurotic, depressed, or manic when describing acquaintances. Such catch-phrases should be seen as "the expression not of a victory of de-humanization but as its latest and very subtlest victory over...
...feel strongly that if you're going to get anywhere, you have to work like a dog"--although that's not exactly the phrase Alexandra uses in more candid moments--and then work some more. "There are too many tall blondes out there" who are willing to be "glamorous baby dolls instead of actresses," she says, and unless she is willing to grind away and to use her brains she won't be able to compete in the show business world...
...majority leader was candid. He said Democratic Senators were still concerned about increasing "injury to the President," especially in view of Carter's campaign statements about high ethical standards in Government. Said Byrd of Lance: "This is the best time for him to go. The longer he waits, the more difficult it will become for you and for him. You have been fair. It's a matter that must be resolved before the week's out." After the meeting, Byrd telephoned Lance to tell him what he had told the President...