Word: conveyer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Rukeyser, 33, a former member of the FORTUNE board of editors, emphasizes that MONEY is "not a technical guide. It involves reportage on a subject close to everybody and not abstract. We believe that the material is not only important but inherently interesting. What we have to do is convey the fascination that we find in it." The magazine is largely staff-written, and will also use contributions from other divisions of Time...
Burg and Feifer's inability to convey a compelling personal description of their subject is the book's most telling failure. A biography has little purpose if the subject remains an obscure and murky personality, although in light of the authors' problems in gathering evidence their troubles are not surprising. This book is unique in its completely inadequate documentation...
Another symbol, the letter n, which is often borrowed from mathematical formulas by social scientists, is equally hallucinogenic. It stands for the word need. Thus Harvard Psychologist David McClelland, for one, writes n Ach when he wants only to convey a person's need to achieve great things, or n Aff to express the urge to affiliate with or belong to a group. Some of his colleagues, Andreski writes, must in turn be moved by n Bam, the need to bamboozle...
...twelve Americans involved had a very different experience. The U.S. and British consuls painstakingly negotiated with Aeroflot to fly the strandees out the next evening-although not before the travelers, who had no transit visas, spent several hours locked up in their hotel. When the U.S. consul went to convey the good news, he was besieged by angry Japanese who claimed that they were ignored by their consul. "A novel experience for an American consul," he commented...
...very best, as in The Rector of Justin, Louis Auchincloss can not only enforce sobriety and respect among his readers; he manages to convey some sense of the strengths and well-harnessed passions that underlie the propriety of his WASP characters. There has always been a strain of unintended comedy in this kind of mannerly fiction, however. The habits and rituals of Auchincloss's well-bred people-moneyed Protestants in the backwaters of the Eastern Establishment -are in themselves no more ridiculous than those of other groups. But the author is so solemn about them that when his control...