Word: hooverisms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Calvin Coolidge shows conflicting moods and feelings; the bottom half is precise and calm, but the top half reflects an impatient, unhappy individual. Herbert Hoover demonstrates incredible motivation, but the coiled web tells us he feels trapped, and the overlapping of the designs suggests that he is a bit befuddled and confused. John Kennedy's graphic movement indicates a superior intellect. Obviously he had bad feelings toward the first, messily drawn house, which may be the White House. His feelings are moderate toward the middle house, and truly homey toward the third. Perhaps he felt some confusion about...
...cowboy, the athlete communicating physically and not verbally (notice there is no mouth), and the grumpy old man who looks to the left, representing the past. These are the doodles of a powerful, well-rounded man. Overall, Kennedy is the brightest of the group, Reagan the most sociable, Hoover the most confused and Coolidge the most disturbed...
...more radical states, such as Libya, Syria, Algeria and South Yemen, have lost prestige in the Arab world as a result of their failure to aid the Palestinians. Says Peter Duignan, a senior fellow at Stanford's Hoover Institution: "The image of Arabs standing together has been shattered." The Iraqis were particularly angry at Syria's Hafez Assad and Libya's Strongman Muammar Gaddafi, both for their "betrayal" of the P.L.O. and for their support of Iran in the gulf war. Since that conflict began 23 months ago, Iraqi President Saddam Hussein has moved away from...
...policy development adviser. A strong advocate of supply-side economics who helped formulate the policy on which Reagan campaigned for the presidency, Anderson left after being effectively locked out of the inner circle of the White House decision-making process. He is now doing research at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University...
...Alaskan pipeline and Hoover Dam are, nothing that Bechtel has ever helped build can compare with the Jubail project. Some 324 miles northeast of the Saudi Arabian capital of Riyadh, on desolate salt flats washed by the Persian Gulf and baked in 100-plus temperatures for much of the year, a whole new ultramodern city is emerging. When completed in 15 years, this megastructure will cover an area as large as Greater London and contain a population as numerous as that of Minneapolis...