Word: barbering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After so unsatisfactory a campaign, someone has to be at fault. Why not the press? After all, as James David Barber, a political scientist at Duke University, argues: "Journalists are the new kingmakers." Far from being puffed up at the honor, journalists are apt to reply: "Who, me? Thanks but no thanks." They, too, are wondering, like card players with a poor hand, "Who dealt this mess...
...which Paula Hawkins, a Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate from Florida, answers: "You never win an election on issues. The only people who want to be specific are editors and journalists. The people out there are tired of someone who has all the answers." Only half kiddingly, Barber would even "forbid a candidate to discuss what he would do if elected," remembering F.D.R.'s promise in 1932 to balance the budget and Nixon as the exemplar of law-and-order. So what is left? Creating a favorable impression of what you would be like in office. That...
Candidates learned to schedule as few press conferences as possible, and to have some rehearsed ad lib ready for the cameras as they stepped from a plane. Thus bypassed, reporters badgered the candidates, "hoping," in Barber's words, "for some bit of quotable idiocy, usually making do with some hypothetical clash," and concentrated on gaffes...
...request that Cline step down as administrator is not related to any charges of wrongdoing," Allen Barber, vice chancellor for research information, said yesterday, adding, "We just want time to look into...
...Barber said he is preparing a report based on information from sources at the hospitals in Italy and Israel where Cline performed his operations...