Word: blankly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...whose only future lies in his memories. The only suggestion we have of a pitiable George Riley is Redlich's stooped posture; otherwise, there is no hint that his conscience is catching up with him painfully. In his eyes we see no sadness or anger--only the blank gaze of a bewildered...
...ever get to know Derek Bok. In a little more than eight years as Harvard's 25th president, Bok has carved a niche as an administrative wunderkind, an effective manager of an institution confronted with increasingly limited means. Ask an undergraduate about Bok and you'll probably get a blank stare, a mumble about "open letters" or "hypocrisy." The last thing the average undergrad would say about Bok is that he "cares about students." And although he has visited every house this year to meet undergrads, the gap, he admits, remains...
...inevitable Alexis de Tocqueville called America une feuille blanche, a blank page, upon which history waited to be written. History has been scribbling away ever since. So have generations of traveling writers. It became a sort of religious obligation, like the Muslim hadj, for European journalists, geniuses and hacks to make their way to the New World and there test their sensibilities upon the peppy and savage Nova Zembla that interrupted Columbus on his way to the Orient...
...does the badinage with Kermit seem to be entirely fortuitous in its timing. Sellers taped his Muppet appearance not long before he went to work on Being There, the film version of Jerzy Kosinski's novel about how a totally blank, isolated man, whose only knowledge of the world comes from television, emerges from the Edenic walled garden he has tended all his life to become a presidential adviser, media pundit and, finally, presidential timber himself. Sellers has indicated that in this character of Chance the gardener (Chauncey Gardiner, as his fancy new friends later take to calling...
...Kennedy energy program." And on the economy: "I will stop inflation in its tracks." His aides believe that Kennedy draws most blood when he assails Carter for "not coming out of the Rose Garden." Says Kennedy at every stop: "Jimmy Carter ought not to be given a blank check. The last time we did that was to Richard Nixon. Once is enough...