Word: understanding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...doubts Sears' ability to understand shifting political realities. "Sears is the best strategist in the business," declares David Keene, who is managing the national campaign of George Bush, Reagan's rival with the finest organization in Iowa. "But this is his last shot. He has something to prove...
...them) not by whether the subject got across what he wanted to say, but by whether he had been goaded into more interesting- and presumably more revealing-candor. In Interview with History, Fallaci remembers Kissinger as "an eel icier than ice" and says, "I swear that I will never understand why he agreed to see me." Ayatullah Khomeini may have agreed to see her because she had been so rough on the Shah ("Let's get back to you, Majesty. So intransigent, so harsh, maybe even ruthless, behind that sad face"). Fallaci wore a floor-length black chador...
...what gives her the right, and the audacity, to assault the powerful? She interviews "with a thousand feelings of rage," she writes, hoping to understand "in what way, by being in power or opposing it, those people determine our destiny." She is convinced they are "not really better than ourselves; they are neither more intelligent nor stronger nor more enlightened." Leaders now safely dead, like Napoleon or Frederick the Great or George Washington, never had to cope with such a phenomenon, which may be one reason why contemporary political leaders often seem so small...
...Marsha Mason), snap zingers at each other during a wary meeting, a breathless courtship and a marriage that almost fails before it gets started, conforming to the theatrical convention Simon has created for himself. But they have the good grace to be self-conscious about their verbal twitchiness. They understand there are more important matters at stake here. As a result, the movie is rather blurred-an owlish comedy, as it were. Yet, if Simon still does not quite trust himself to express his feelings fully, Chapter Two remains thought provoking...
...accelerated pace of emotional lives today. These seem not to move to natural rhythms but at the speeds of the media, where the compulsion for at least one new sensation a week hinders the sensible sorting out of the significant from the trivial. Simon's lovers understand that they cannot stay the rush of their feelings: lives are so crowded, things pile up so rapidly that there is a compulsion to lurch after possibilities that might otherwise be explored more thoughtfully...