Word: pleader
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Galbraith, economics is a vehicle for achieving broad social aims. More than anyone else, he injects social ideas into the bloodstream of economics. As prodder, pleader and proselytizer, he is unrivaled in the U.S. today. "Galbraith is an antenna and a synthesizer," says Samuelson. "He senses what is in the air and puts it together and packages...
...office and the Jovian electronic eye ensure that the Chief Executive's visage and voice are available for instant dissection from Baghdad to Bangkok, from factory cafeteria to family living room. Depending on the man and the moment, he may come across as heavy or hero, leader or pleader, preacher or teacher. Whatever his role, in the age of instant communication he inevitably seems so close that the viewer can almost reach out, pluck his sleeve and complain: "Say, Mr. President, what about prices? Napalm? The draft...
Despite intense Administration pressure-particularly from Postmaster General Larry O'Brien, the President's prime pleader on Capitol Hill-Mills refuses to cooperate unless Johnson gives him an ironclad promise to cut domestic spending. Thus, if Lyndon Johnson is to get any economy-steadying measure through Congress, it may have to be at the price of some of his cherished Great Society programs. That is a hard decision for Johnson to make, but this time he will have to face up to it without delay. Harry Truman struck a chord of urgency in the nation when he asked...
...career man's secret fear nightmarishly materializes in the ordeal of one Manhattan executive, abruptly ousted from his high-salaried berth in an ad agency. Dodd's palpable masterpiece of terror shadows the desperate job hunter on his grim rounds as he shrinks from breadwinner to abject pleader...
...University of Mississippi professor ticked off incident after incident to prove his thesis, noting with particular joy that Jackson mayor Allen Thompson "has changed overnight from one of the state's greatest racists to a very respectable pleader for law and order...