Word: minding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...major political blunder that undid Griffin last week. After announcing, in the spring of 1977, that he would not seek reelection, he began playing hooky from his Senate job, missing 216 roll calls that year. When he later changed his mind and entered the race, his dismal attendance record haunted him, even though he previously had a well-deserved reputation as a Washington workhorse. Exclaimed Levin repeatedly during the campaign: "If any one of us missed 216 days of work in a year, we'd be fired!" Michigan voters agreed...
...embarrassingly found himself outpolled in the primary by the "no" votes. In neighboring Idaho, Republican Gubernatorial Candidate Allan Larsen suffered a similar slight. To underscore Incumbent John Evans' refusal to debate, Larsen paid for a televised confrontation with an empty chair. That helped one voter make up his mind: he cast a write-in vote for the empty chair...
...women to organize and lead an ascent. This, also, is an absurd way to achieve equality. Skill, not sex should determine who leads a climb. If women have the requisite skill, fine. By all means they should be encouraged to gain leadership. But they also have to bear in mind that, as females, they are a climbing minority...
...show--breaking the ponderous script. The cast, and special advisers to the show such as David Maybury-Lewis, professor of Anthropology, have put much time and effort into reproducing a cultural microcosm of an endangered tribe. The rituals and dances, the makeup and music, all conspire to take your mind off the surrounding baggage of the rest of the show...
Nikolai Gogol had a mind like a trap door. Anyone venturing on the deceptive surfaces of his works must be prepared to lose his footing at unexpected moments and be sent plummeting into radical alterations of consciousness. Realism shifts to fantasy; the prosaic turns mystical; solid citizens stumble unwittingly into topsy-turvy land...