Word: conveyer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...used to keep the FBI investigation limited or to help keep the arrested Watergate conspirators from implicating higher officials. Always, the conversations were couched in political terms rather than in any regard for national security. The implication of the talks was that 1) Nixon had failed utterly to convey his concern for national security, or 2) these officials on their own had decided that politics was the priority aim, or 3) Nixon's security explanation was contrived after the fact...
...words seemed to convey the utmost reasonableness. There was none of the jut-jawed belligerence of a Duce, none of the menacing rhetoric of a swaggering martinet. In fact, an ironic, Pirandellian sense of split realities was inescapable. Here was a former functionary of Benito Mussolini's last government denouncing the "totalitarian" ways of contemporary Italy...
...letter to the VES curriculum committee last year, Rudolf Arnheim, professor of the Psychology of Art, said that Carpenter Center should not continue to convey the impression that understanding "figure-ground relationships" and "complementary colors" are the objectives of its teaching. Instead, Arnheim said, it should shift its emphasis from teaching visual tools to asking what these tools can be used for, especially in terms of self-expression...
BRECHT'S INABILITY to convey science convincingly is not just an irritating drawback: it is a central flaw in this work. How much faith can we place in a man's evaluation of scientific progress if he seems to have no conception of what science is? Like this whole production, Brecht's script lacks a tone of authority. The players and the playwright seem equally uncertain about what they are trying to do, and therefore equally incapable of achieving...
...hiring of radical professors: "It seems to me that if 1400 students signed that petition and got no response from the University, the Commission should take it over." I fear you have, and not for the first time, juxtaposed two statements of mine in such a way as to convey a false impression. I do indeed feel that if 1400 students sign a petition, then the appropriate University office should entertain it and respond to it, and if that office will not do so, or if the appropriate office cannot be determined, the Commission should accept the petition. It does...