Word: impressionability
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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At first his personality seemed monolithic enough. He gave a powerful impression of the assured technician. Even reporters who did not cover the Pentagon liked to attend his press conferences. Briefed to the eyeballs behind his almost rimless glasses, his gleaming black hair immaculately slicked, McNamara delivered an unstoppable stream...
Back in January, President Nixon an nounced the appointment of nine new members to a commission on marijuana and drug abuse. Last month he flatly told a press conference that if that commission turns out to favor legalizing pot, "I will not follow that recommendation." That was only the latest...
As the documents bared the planning process, they also demolished any lingering faith that the nation's weightiest decisions are made by deliberative men, calmly examining all the implications of a policy and then carefully laying out their reasoning in depth. The proliferation of papers, the cabled requests for clarification...
The Goldberg Variations runs unbroken for 80 minutes-one of the longest nonstory ballets ever produced. It demands, and successfully commands, total attention through sheer mastery of what choreography can create for the human body to perform. Time and again Robbins presents familiar patterns and movements that somehow give the...
But Bok is in it now; there is no room, or time, for second thoughts. Perhaps the only consolation is that his professorship at the Law School will still be there 15 years from now if he wants it. He might just take it if his impression-founded in a...