Word: elicit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There were a few thoughtful questions, but they did not elicit much in the way of answers. Asked how to avoid manipulation of TV by foreign governments and terrorists, Jennings gave the standard it-won't-happen-again apology for overcovering crowds outside the U.S. embassy in Iran during the hostage crisis. Paris Bureau Chief Pierre Salinger aptly pointed out that "in no country ... is the concept of freedom of information the same as in the U.S." That topic merits 90 minutes by itself - it is the overarching problem that American correspondents face - yet it got scant attention, except...
...explained that as an undergraduate member of the Harvard Lesbian and Gay Coordinating Committee, he had met with Zeckhauser during a University wide effort to elicit non discrimination policy statements on housing employment and admissions...
...diplomatic nonsense; his points are clear and balanced. He condemns Begin's annexation/settlement policy in the occupied territories as well as the P.L.O.'S reluctance to recognize Israel. The foreign policies of the U.S. and the U.S.S.R., both of which tend to stand innocently in the wings, elicit criticism as well. They selfishly inflict the American-Soviet dispute on a region whose occupants have many more pressing concerns than whether the "Reds are coming" or whether the descent of the "Capitalist boogeyman" is imminent...
...none other than Magazine Journalist and Novelist E.J. Kahn Jr., 65, a highly regarded staff writer at The New Yorker since 1937. The project, for which Kahn was commissioned by Manufacturers Hanover Chairman John F. McGillicuddy, and paid $10,000 plus expenses by the bank, is certain to elicit considerable skepticism in some quarters. But Kahn's commentary is also likely to become required reading for any businessman or banker hungry for a more upbeat view of the world about...
...countryman needs no alarm clock, play sensuously in the grain stored in the barn and, while her father and uncles are at the funeral, find a symbolic egg and present it to her grandfather. She alone among the visitors will cry for the dead woman and elicit answering tears from her grandfather. Thus do the innocence of childhood and the simplifying wisdom of age find common ground, and strike a sweet, clear note of hope, quite unsentimental as Rosi understates...