Word: knowingly
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...admits that "nobody who has ever worked for a President has felt that President was treated fairly by the press." In Powell's view, the man in the White House is inevitably locked in a tumultuous, adversarial relationship with the reporters who cover him. "I don't know whose fault it is, but it's a problem that has to be looked at," he says. "It would be simple if you could say the problem is that reporters are a bunch of jerks, or don't like Southern Democrats or whatever. That is not the nature...
...before the hostage rescue attempt last April. "Keeping the secret was too important," he explains. One of few press aides ever to be numbered among a President's closest advisers, Powell feels that dual role enhanced his credibility, even when he was untruthful. Says he: "Folks would rather know I knew full well what was involved than deal with someone who didn't even know if he was telling the truth...
...much Carter's irresolution and waffling stemmed from too much attention to Patrick Caddell's incessant and expensive opinion sampling. The Washington Post's Haynes Johnson blames himself and his press colleagues for basing so much coverage on polls, then writing learned analysis claiming to know what was on people's minds. Wrote Johnson: "As it turns out, reporters would have been better served by relying on their own legwork, which in turn produces their own political instincts...
...scholars directed by Harvard Sociologist Daniel Bell. It met in the '60s but petered out by 1972. "It makes no sense to predict the future," says Bell. "There are too many contingencies. What you can do is identify relevant frameworks, and identify problems-but you don't know what will be done about them, which is the function of political will...
...typical Balanchine dancer: lithe, leggy, fair-haired. She moves with the speed and clarity he demands. She seems to know instinctively what many talented dancers need years to learn: how to engage an audience. Even in a difficult role where rough edges show, she takes obvious pleasure in being onstage dancing. Her joy leaps right over the footlights and lets the audience share in her zest...