Word: affectionate
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Never in modern history has a President fallen to such murky depths in the national affection. George Gallup, the dean of the opinion samplers, who has been measuring voter sentiment since 1936, found just 15 days ago that Carter had only 21% approval, eclipsing Richard Nixon's 24% and Harry...
David Schoenbrun, a former CBS bureau chief in Paris, met De Gaulle and other Resistance figures during the war, when he was a young U.S. military intelligence officer. He has interviewed the surviving intelligence leaders, among the most notable of whom is Marie-Madeleine Fourcade, who, as Hedgehog, ran the...
Still, I think Jack has it easy. Everybody loves him. It's not like team sports, where each city has its favorites and at the same time loves to hate brilliant athletes who do not don the team's colors. It's not even like tennis, where fans have their...
In fact, some people seem to have a heavy emotional investment in continuing their pain, which is quite real to the patient, even if it is of psychosomatic origin. Explains Dr. John Bonica of the University of Washington in Seattle, co-founder of the first major pain-relief clinic in...
They are an odd couple, Carter so tidy and pious, Jordan so disorganized and irreverent. That irreverence has caused Carter more than his share of embarrassments. He has looked in disbelief at the various bumps in Jordan's personal life but never lectured him. Carter's affection for...