Word: fathoming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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What does Jesse Jackson want? The question gnaws at the Democrats as they try to fathom the preacher-politician's shifting moods, sometimes contradictory rhetoric and flamboyant gestures-like his trip this week to Cuba and Central America. Interpreting Jackson has become a kind of political pastime, as compelling and mysterious as predicting the next move by the Politburo...
...Jackson the ultimate personification of the androgynous rock star. His high-flying tenor makes him sound like the lead in some funked-up boys choir, even as the sexual dynamism irradiating from the arch of his dancing body challenges Government standards for a nuclear meltdown. His lithe frame, five-fathom eyes, long lashes might be threatening if Jackson gave, even for a second, the impression that he is obtainable. But the audience's sense of his sensuality becomes quite deliberately tangled with the mirror image of his life: the good boy, the God-fearing Jehovah's Witness, the adamant vegetarian...
...think it's worse than that. I think he's trying to maximize the number of corporate boards he can get on." Some foes charge that the professor just did not understand how Washington works. Says one Treasury aide: "I can't begin to fathom what motivates the man. He could be completely naive, or totally and cleverly self-serving, or completely concerned with his intellectual integrity. It could be a little of each...
...foreign policy, according to LaFeber, has been a fear of revolutions, and Washington has busied itself with preserving the status quo. This stems partly from the need to safeguard U.S. economic interests which might be jeopardized in an upheaval, but also from the inability of American politicians to fathom the right of all nations to the same ideals and liberties they themselves enjoy...
...musical and theatrical arts. With this knowledge, he combines thematic insights and a knack for manipulating the stage. His dedication and achievements rank him an artist of the greatest integrity. But when people neither understand nor enjoy his production, what is the point? Art? Must art be tortuous to fathom? To disdain those who walk out of a production, to direct a work grasped only by its creator is too easy and risks too little...