Word: downplay
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Some behavioral scientists accused news organizations of giving undue attention to the kidnapings. Newsmen were hardly unaware of the kidnapers' headline-hunting instincts. Yet it was impossible to deliberately downplay the kidnapings, as was done with street rioting in the '60s with some success. Not only were the abductions compelling news, but also the S.L.A. demanded, on pain of Patricia's death, that its propaganda be printed and broadcast in full (see THE PRESS...
When, at the most recent presidential news conference, Richard Nixon sought to downplay the gravity of his continuing crisis, he noted acidly that in the days following his decision to resume the U.S. bombing of Hanoi last Christmas there were charges by some that the President had "lost his senses." Nixon neglected to point out that the most prominent politician to offer this instant psychoanalysis was a fellow Republican, Ohio Senator William Bart Saxbe, and it was neither the first nor the last time that Saxbe chose to unload his blunt thoughts about the Administration. Yet last week, in still...
...efforts to get the Faculty to revamp the Commission on Inquiry to hear student grievances, Bok's shareholder program hints that he is genuinely interested in student opinion. That is more than can be said for his predecessor or for the Faculty majority, which likes to scoff at and downplay any student participation beyond the adolescent level...
Safe Stimulus. For all that, the U.S. can neither downplay nor ignore unemployment. What can be done about it? Robert Nathan, a Democratic member of TIME'S Board of Economists, argues that the Government could safely spend more to stimulate the economy, relying on rising productivity and tough controls to hold inflation down. Republicans reply that controls are ineffective against the type of inflation that results from excess demand fueled by giant budget deficits. But Washington could make at least one move to distribute the burden of unemployment more evenly. It could crack down harder on job discrimination based...
Missouri politics is know for its tenacious and often dirty political campaigns and Eagleton admitted that he had to downplay his Amherst Harvard background during his early campaign. Most of Missuri's politicians are educated in state and I can recall several me occasions where opponents tried to criticize me for my Eastern Establishment academic credentials. While Amherst and Harvard are excellent academic institutions within their own spheres, my schooling was used as ammunition against me, and although I can't say it hurt me, I can't say my New England education helped me with the voters of Missouri...