Word: analysts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...anti-Palestinian plot of which the fedayeen have been accusing Syria, Israel and the U.S., Washington sources were quick to deny any complicity. "We could not have figured this one out if we had tried to, and we have people working day and night," said a top U.S. analyst. "The Arabs did it all by themselves." Washington officials said that Syria had not consulted the U.S. about its intentions, nor did the U.S. have anything to do with Syria's decision to increase its forces. State Department sources claimed that U.S. leverage was limited in an intra-Arab struggle...
...provoking a confrontation with Israel. If there seems any strong danger of that, the Syrians could renew their military effort of last week. That, if successful, might finally succeed in imposing some kind of order in Lebanon. But it might also set the stage for, as one U.S. analyst put it, "something drastic happening": a further escalation in the fighting and the total disintegration of prospects for a political solution...
Daniel Yankelovich, the public opinion analyst, finds a different emphasis: "What we're seeing is not a revolt against Washington and the Eastern establishment. It's simply that the fresh faces make sense." Despite the popularity of some incumbents, says Yankelovich, there is "an anti-incumbency mood, one that extends not only to the people in office but to the old ideas and styles, to almost everything that has been part of the kind of thinking associated with past problems." Rumbles Oregon Teamster Leader L.B. Day: "We're looking for someone with guts who will tell these...
...find--friends' recollections, letters, unpublished commentaries to Lawrence's books and, of course, Lawrence's massive opus which almost no one has read, "The Seven Pillars of Wisdom." The project took Mack, who also serves as the head of Harvard Medical School's psychiatric division and as a practicing analyst at Cambridge Hospital, over ten years to complete. And while the sheer volume of Mack's research makes the product somewhat hard to digest, the results of his "objective" study throw considerable light on just how psycho-historical analysis should be done...
Michael Novak, a Catholic theologian and perceptive analyst of U.S. politics, wrote recently in the Washington Post: "The source of discomfort is that they [Northerners] do not know at first hand the pressures that shaped him, his inner demons and his inner angels. They can't confidently imagine scenarios of various pressures upon him and predict how he will act. He is, from his point of view, an outsider breaking in on their world. But they are, from their point of view, outsiders who can't quite understand what makes him tick...