Word: couchful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rushed off to the Littauer stacks and started researching. For the first time in three years there, I found all the books I was looking for. Organization and I ran six miles each morning, painted the room, went to language labs, reupholstered the couch and began writing thank-you letters...
...AGREE for the most part with the recommendations of the majority. We cannot, however, presume to couch the events of this unfortunate incident in the context of any "old boy network," nor can we assume any particular motives on the parts of the doctors who wrote the recommendations. We prefer not to delve into the mystic realms of psychoanalysis, but rather to place blame for this outrage squarely on the institutions involved. It is debatable whether it is the duty of a doctor, called upon by a friend to offer a written evaluation of his medical abilities, to mention...
...recent afternoon he was at home slouched in a living-room chair, feet in $7 mail-order sneakers flat on the floor. His dog Patches, essentially a beagle, quivered under the couch. Helms emptied his pockets?some change, a silver cross, a Christian medallion?and talked about his curious perch in American politics. "Some folks say I'm scary," he says. "The people here don't think I'm scary." Two of his four grandchildren, capering in the yard, call him "Sir," but they are not scared. He does not want to be scary...
...Harvard Business School and a private consultant of 30 years' experience, but also a certified psychoanalyst, one of a very few in the U.S. who have made a specialty of using Freud's teachings and techniques to put corporate employees-and sometimes entire corporations-on the couch. "To me," he says, "an organization is a working coalition among executives that can be disturbed by hidden emotional factors, like unresolved dependency, the inability of people to deal constructively with rivalry and aggression. My job is to remove these barriers so people's energies can be turned toward work...
...steady stream of worshipful Iranian supporters line up to receive instructions from Banisadr. At a dining-room table, a dozen young Iranian students work on mimeographed communiqués. Husky bodyguards carefully screen all visitors. The former President is seated on a couch before a big mahogany coffee table. Above his head hangs a campaign poster of himself. He now has neither the mustache nor the glasses that appear in the picture. Relaxed in shirtsleeves, his shoes off, he appears slightly pudgy and tired, but good-humored and confident...