Word: expounding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Professional politicians, most Americans assume, are at worst corrupt. Sheed thinks most of them are crazy. He may well be right, but the political novel isn't suited to expound such a far-reaching thesis. As a result, Sheed's book seems like a shotgun marriage of escapism and pretentious character analysis...
None of this seems to touch the well-insulated Mr. Saravelas. When I walked into his office two Thursdays ago, I mistakenly sat in his large black chair. Accommodatingly, Saravelas insisted I remain there, and began to expound on his agency in the most fluent bureaucratese: "Our big emphasis for '73 will be on working more cooperatively with existing agencies and on trying to influence them to reallocate their resources," he began. "Basically, we have concentrated on a direct service approach, but now we're moving into forming coalitions with other groups to effect systems changes." (He failed to mention...
...Sweden's five-times-married Film Maker Ingmar Bergman to an interviewer. "It's utterly uninteresting, whereas the relationship between a man and a woman is always interesting." With a six-part TV series on marriage newly filmed, Bergman had his share of deep Nordic thoughts to expound: "A life relationship between a man and a woman has always resulted in their signing a contract entirely to the advantage of the man...because men, damn it, want to hang on to their privileges. The fantastic thing is that women haven't managed to do any more about...
...September 1969, Anderson set out to make it strictly investigative and, much as the idea might shock his victims, impartial. Though he tries to avoid criticizing his mentor, he says: "With Drew, the column was more of a personal vehicle. Some of Drew's columns were simply to expound his own philosophy." Pearson conducted what looked like personal vendettas-against...
...minute rounds with former Light Heavyweight Champion José Torres on TV's Dick Cavett Show. After Mailer got his breath, Cavett brought up the subject of the brain damage boxers sustain in the ring compared with that of writers at the bar. Mailer was predictably glad to expound from experience. "The brain damage I suffered here just now," he said, "is far less than I suffer after a night of heavy drinking. My brain isn't as good as it was years ago, but I didn't do any boxing to speak of since then...