Word: focusing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fluctuant, emotional attachments" and "sudden and extreme shifts in loyalty and enthusiasm." The new report referred to Ellsberg as "a very intelligent man" and denied that he was "emotionally disturbed in a psychotic or gross manner." It briefly mentioned his sex life and two years of psychoanalysis, but its focus was on traumatic childhood experiences?especially a car accident at 15 in which his mother and sister were killed?to explain his alleged psychological instability...
...prime inflationary force in the economy-and the Government cannot persuade labor leaders to moderate them unless it makes a conscientious effort to restrain business too. The President, as wielder of the nation's largest jawbone, should define what wage and price behavior is responsible and focus public opinion pressure against increases that violate the guidelines. In order to assure that he is listened to, he needs the authority to order occasional rollbacks...
...strongly on those two figures, the weakness is fatal. Neither Norman Goodman as Willy nor Jan Lewis as Linda seem to have crawled inside their characters to think through the indisputable logic which leads those characters to say one thing rather than another at any point. They seem to focus their eyes always on the wrong thing--which is to say, on something other than what was compelling the characters' attention...
...Clair, it is the only portion of the massive document that attempts to draw specific conclusions. St. Clair cites Senate Watergate testimony by H.R. Haldeman, John Ehrlichman and John Mitchell that the President had no knowledge of the burglary or the coverup. The defense counsel's main focus, however, is on the crucial $75,000 payment to E. Howard Hunt, one of the convicted Watergate conspirators. St. Clair argues that the transcript of the meeting that Nixon held with White House Counsel John Dean on March 21, 1973, "clearly demonstrates that the President recognizes that any blackmail and cover...
...shutdown, though he attributes it to other factors as well. Press coverage was limited, he says, because "there was no violence, or very little violence. There were no blockades, there was nothing for the press to look at. If you don't have something dramatic to focus a camera lens on, then nothing's going to happen...