Word: virtualization
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...campaign, were more observant. A Harvard speechwriter who becomes his candidate's Ivy League conscience, Perkins concentrates more on the sexual activities of the campaign secretary than on Casey's political life. This secretary exaggerates the love interest of the old political novel -- her cool efficiency disintegrates into virtual nymphomania whenever Casey wins a primary. Sheed ignores the opportunity to describe the fascinating symbiosis of sex and politics within a campaign; he is satisfied to turn a writer's trick with tradition. Sheed's disappointing conclusion to Casey's career, tossed off in one or two sentences, is another refusal...
...professionalism, one not so readily attainable by any other occupational group in our society. Indubitably this in itself has become a source of contention between the doctor and his patient, paternalism being the most definable of the malignant outgrowths. The modern American doctor commands salaries way beyond those of virtually all of his countrymen, and he consequently maintains an otherwise inaccessible elevation in social status. But these are only the symptoms of our veneration for our medicine men. It is the very nature of the physician's work, that of healing and life-saving, that has made him the subject...
Freedom, however, is also in short supply, East Germany severely restricts freedom of speech, assembly and the press. Students are taught only 'correct' doctrines in the schools and universities. The nation is a virtual colony of the Soviet Union, shifting its ideological line in response to Soviet policy and subordinating its own economic needs to the demands of its big socialist brother...
...morale, and most probably throw the Tigers, the Crimson, and Dartmouth into a three-way tie for the crown. But although Princeton has a number of intangible advantages, including the home pool and an incentive to retain at least a share of the crown, the meet is rated a virtual toss...
...began one of the great dramas of this century, the kidnaping of 20-month-old Charles Lindbergh Jr., only son of the young pilot who had captivated the world by making the first nonstop solo flight across the Atlantic. During this period, Lindbergh and his wife were virtual prisoners in their home in Hopewell, N.J., never answering the prying questions of reporters. In the second volume of her diaries and letters, Hour of Gold, Hour of Lead, soon to be published by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Anne Morrow Lindbergh finally tells her version of the tragedy through the daily letters...