Word: mattered
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...another matter, Agnew did promise relief. Faced with complaints that Republican Governors have trouble making their voices heard in the White House, the Vice President promised to spend more time serving as Nixon's intermediary in state-level politics. He was assigned that job by the President in February 1969, but has spent little time fulfilling its duties. Pledged Agnew: "We will strengthen our efforts at liaison...
Michigan Attorney General Frank J. Kelley investigated, then wrote a letter to the state's department of mental health. "We make no judgment relating to the hospital's handling of the Cronk matter," wrote the attorney general. He itemized the high-pressure techniques against advertisers, and added: "Hospital officials have, in effect, made the state a party to an attempt to stifle freedom of the press by the use of economic pressures. [The hospital's] power has been perverted. Such action cannot be tolerated...
...Santa Claus is going on a diet.' Oh, I like that." He laughs again, moving among what is now a forest of raised hands. One child, standing on tiptoe, drapes Koch's head with tinsel as if he were a Christmas tree. School-or, for that matter, writing poetry-was never like this...
...unique potential and that it is her mission to create a near-perfect being, become the child's shadow, with equally damaging results, according to Brandeis Sociologist Philip Slater. The child soon recognizes that he is the center of an extraordinary effort and that his happiness is a matter of great stakes. He will seldom turn out exactly as planned, and when family dissension ensues, the mother will resent her "sacrifices." Moreover, though she may have brought up her child to be "more cultured, less moneygrubbing, more spontaneous and creative" than she herself was brought...
...Wolfe, as for any satirist, manner is matter. To reduce his scenes to message is to miss both his point and his quality. Still, given the high-voltage polarity of the age, Wolfe is already being unfairly abstracted for message and misread something like this: the black movement is a put-on; the poverty program is a feckless giveaway; white liberals are pure patsies. As a result, he will endure not merely the embarrassing approval of the Neanderthals ("You see! you see!") but the threat of stoning at the hands of enraged reformers and black extremists alike. When a TIME...