Word: healer
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...nation has forgotten its core values and is tearing itself apart; the Healer wants your help (or at least your vote) to put together that which politics has rent asunder. By definition, the Healer eschews traditional political debate, instead probing the seams of religious and patriotic sentiment for a message that will deliver the electoral mother lode. Throw a stick in New Hampshire in February and you?ll hit at least five would-be Healers. Ross Perot is a failed Healer. As Bill Clinton proved, the true art of playing the Healer is convincing voters that you feel their pain...
...Bill Clinton may be the exception that proves the rule that a Thinker can?t be a Crowd-Pleaser. Policy wonks generally don?t set pulses racing, and tend to diagnose, rather than feel, your pain. But those not blessed with the charisma of the Crowd-Pleaser or the Healer can work a different seam of political frustration ?- the perceived need for new thinking to break traditional ideological molds. Voters know the old models aren?t working, so a candidate such as Bill Bradley who can appear to be a deep thinker unburdened by partisan baggage has a kind...
...Lawrence-Lightfoot's 1988 book, Balm in Gilead: Journey of a Healer, that inspired the donation that made her chair possible...
...room to himself, to study in peace. He did not disappoint them. After an impressive career in school, he matriculated in 1873 in the University of Vienna and drifted from one philosophical subject to another until he hit on medicine. His choice was less that of a dedicated healer than of an inquisitive explorer determined to solve some of nature's riddles...
...baby boomers hadn't grown up reading Sgt. Rock and listening to the fakey tromp-tromp sound effect of marching Nazi soldiers on all those episodes of The World at War. But people these days seem to think of Spielberg less as a filmmaker than as a healer of deep historical wounds (don't forget that he has already helped us come to terms with the Holocaust, slavery and the extinction of the dinosaurs). Expect him, if he wins, to offer some kind of generational benediction in a manner both elfin and rabbinical...