Word: elicit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...perfectly senseless. We tend to call serial murders senseless, but we know that buried deep inside a Wayne Williams lies a horrible, though perhaps unfathomable, purpose. We suspect a reason, some powerful, twisted logic. Anomic violence, on the other hand, is truly senseless. Thus crimes of madness elicit from us revulsion; crimes of need (like Jean Valjean's) sympathy; but crimes for fun, for a video game, for no purpose, elicit rage. John Hinckley Jr. did more damage in a minute than these four combined had done in a lifetime. But there could be no satisfaction in blowing him away...
Last week, in response to the international outrage stirred up by Spiro, the Falk Foundation announced that it would no longer award the Eppinger Prize. "We founded the prize to encourage research, not to elicit political controversy," declared Dr. Herbert Falk, 60, head of the foundation and president of Dr. Falk GmbH, a firm specializing in drugs to treat disorders of the gall bladder and liver. "I will do anything to counter the impression that I am promoting a Nazi war criminal." Falk's firm decided to create a hepatology prize in the late '60s. Says Falk...
...grace and uncomplicated beauty; the bravura of (Obi-Wan) O'Toole, shameless and affecting as he just about tears a planet to tatters; and a hilarious wicked-witch turn by the delicious Dunaway. The climactic confrontation, in which man's fate is decided by two women, could elicit thrills of laughter from a Saturday-matinee benefit performance...
...hastily. Said a senior State Department official, hoping that this would happen: "Whether it makes sense to talk specifics depends on whether the Soviets are prepared really to re-engage on arms control." But if Reagan holds to his decision to deal mostly in generalities, he is unlikely to elicit much movement from the Soviet side...
...vignettes of American life: a smiling old couple, a wedding, a sunrise, a house under construction. Over one, an announcer says, "America's back." Explains Phil Dusenberry, a Madison Avenue creative director and Reagan advertising strategist: "That is what we have done in the past with Pepsi, to elicit a sense of feeling. It is a sense of optimism, a sense of patriotism...