Word: frightener
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...much a candidate's age as how he wears it that weighs on voters. William Henry Harrison was 67 when he ran for President in 1840, and judging from what passed for press reports at the time, no one seemed to care. Democrats tried to frighten voters after Eisenhower fell ill in 1955. "They ran ads saying that if you elected Eisenhower, you were going to get Nixon because [Ike] was going to die," says Kathleen Hall Jamieson, dean of the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania...
Unlike many directors who chafe under studio involvement, Howard says, "I grew up comfortably within the system and never felt terribly hindered by it. My instincts don't frighten them." Maybe that's because his instincts are so, well, comfortable. What attracted him to Apollo 13 was not the techno-wizardry but the human story. "The bittersweet quality of Jim Lovell's experience definitely drew me in," says Howard. "Here was a guy, arguably the best-equipped individual to walk on the moon, and the opportunity was pulled out from under him. It was devastating, and we can all relate...
...effects our culture has on our conduct may not always be so obvious, but they are real nonetheless. And what should also frighten us is that almost all of us have enjoyed films and television shows that have drawn on casual violence, casual sex or both. No one group in American society has a monopoly on the enjoyment of such "entertainment;" no one group can proclaim its innocence. Similarly, the moral decline of our nation also recognizes none of the established boundaries that divide our society in almost every other area imaginable...
...didn't. Soon the eye began to droop and the pupil became fixed. The baby's grandfather, Isaac Manly, a Harvard- trained surgeon, was worried about the child's symptoms but didn't want to frighten her parents. He gently suggested a trip to the ophthalmologist, which led to the pediatrician, then the neurologist. The first time the parents got a hint of what might be wrong was when they took Elizabeth in for tests and glimpsed the diagnosis on the hospital admissions form: "brain tumor...
...this point, I know you're wondering how I, and other severely non-together people, have managed to get this far. The answer is straightforward--enablers. Parents who are willing to make tax and travel arrangements (my mother is organized enough to frighten off the IRS). Kind friends who don't mind waiting 15 minutes at Uno's for their dinner companion to arrive. Extracurricular companions who organize major committees and post prominent notices of meetings. Those sorts of people. It's still undecided whether or not this comprises a step towards sainthood, but it definitely accumulates...