Word: lied
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...done so with impressive authority, thanks to Johnson's carte blanche: "My desk is your beat." When in doubt, he says, he tries to heed his father's axiom: "Tell the truth when you can, and when you can't, don't tell a lie." Though he is himself a highly competent reporter, he is not without critics. As Reedy warned him, "This is one job where you can't make everybody happy." Says one reporter: "He's Mr. Snow in my book." There is an "icy piety" about him, complains another. Says...
...with a lot of problems around, and there's a demand for people who are trying to understand them," explains Harvard Sociologist Talcott Parsons. Another reason, says Riesman, is that "the bloom of psychoanalysis is off"; people's problems often have to be related to conditions that lie beyond their family situations. The new drives against poverty, urban blight and crime have also increased the demand for sociologists who, as George Washington University Vice President Jack Brown says, "want to get out in the field and get their hands dirty rather than just talk about social problems...
...things after invading a bacterium: 1) stimulate the bacterial cell to produce hundreds of copies of the virus particle, and destroy itself in the process, as happens in many ordinary human viral infections, or 2) attach itself to the host cell's genetic material and then lie dormant, only to reappear consistently in successive generations of host-cell bacteria. After this dormant phase, chemicals or radiation can still trigger the intruder gene into becoming infective and destructive...
...Loved One, copiously advertised as "the motion picture with something to offend everyone," is an overstuffed sick joke trying to make the grade as a capital offense. Beneath the comedy's excesses lie the bones of Novelist Evelyn Waugh's slight, graceful satire of love and death in southern California. The hero is still a bumptious English poet (Robert Morse) employed at the Hap pier Hunting Ground pet cemetery. He woos a corpse cosmetician named Aimee Thanatogenos (Anjanette Comer), who is beloved by her boss, Mr. Joyboy (Rod Steiger), the chief mortician at Whispering Glades memorial park. Ultimately...
Wise Guy. Berenson's anecdotes were always redoubtable, included the familiar Wilde story: "Having very clearly failed to meet some commitment, Oscar telegraphed: T cannot come. Lie follows.' " His aphorisms were provocative. "The first in a flock is still a sheep...