Word: jacob
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ADVENTURES OF "RABBI" JACOB...
...burst of rabid optimism common to their species, the Stateside distributors of this perishable French farce report that the movie contains "1,500 separate gags." How did such a statistic turn up? Did 20th Century-Fox survey theaters in France, where The Mad Adventures of "Rabbi" Jacob has been doing the kind of business that virtually subsidizes an entire industry? Maybe the director supplied the eager exhibitors with a laugh count made on the metric system and an error was made in the conversion. Maybe something was lost in the translation...
That came in a smaller meeting later in the day of the official Republican Senate leadership&$151;Scott, Tower and Griffin-and two invited Senators representing opposite wings of the party: Goldwater and New York's Liberal Jacob Javits. The group selected Goldwater as the man who ought to seek a meeting with the President to warn him of the tremendous odds against his acquittal. Said Scott: "We agreed that Barry should be our emissary to the President." It was a role long ago foreseen for Goldwater in any ultimate resignation scenario...
Republican Congressmen made some suggestions. Senator Jacob Javits renewed his proposal that Nixon temporarily turn over his duties as President to Vice President Gerald Ford under the 25th Amendment until the impeachment trial is concluded. Adopted in 1967, the amendment was intended to cover cases when a President is temporarily incapacitated for mental or physical reasons, but Javits believes it can be applied to impeachment as well...
Active-Negative. Psychiatrists are outraged by such remote-control analysis. Protests Harvard's Dr. Robert Coles: "This is the most blatant kind of psychiatric reductionism. It's hard enough to interpret a person's motives or reasons even firsthand." Dr. Jacob Swartz of Boston, spokesman for the American Psychoanalytic Association, says: "To form a valid opinion, one should see the patient...