Word: analyst
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Even if he does not change the thrust of decisions, Fortas, an extraordinarily subtle and precise analyst, is likely to improve their quality. One justified criticism of the Warren court is that the decisions, though progressive and humane, were often so poorly written and negligent of precedent that they were confusing to lawyers and judges in lower courts, who must look on them...
Robert F. Kennedy reached the pinacle of Amereican political power as his brother's Attorney General largely on his effectiveness as a successful electoral manager and analyst. John F. Kennedy's younger, shorter, and more shy brother gained initial fame as the chief strategist of two victories--in the 1952 Massachusetts Senate race and in the 1960 Presidential campaign...
...majority of Americans, who know that Lyndon Johnson speaks the truth when he tells them they never had it so good, often find the tumult incomprehensible. Congress senses the mood and refuses to be rushed; it figures that most elections are still decided, as one political analyst put it, by "the un-poor, the un-black and the un-young...
...Review; called Whacking Off, it is a frantic confession of boyhood sin. Portnoy recalls how, as an adolescent, he always had to please his parents publicly, while he privately and obsessively masturbated to please himself; this experience sentenced him to a chronic condition of shame, which he begs his analyst to cure. The Jewish Blues, which reveals the Portnoy family guilts and secrets even further, appeared the following month in the first issue of New American Review. The fourth and by far largest section (28,000 words) appears in the Review's current issue (New American Library, paperback...
...political analyst Richard Scammon pointed out this evening that all three Democratic contenders ran about equal if one subtracts Kennedy's massive Negro vote. Thus, Scammon reasoned, Kennedy still must prove his ability to gather a majority of white voters before the Democratic party will award him the nomination...