Word: politicians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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WINSTON S. CHURCHILL, by Randolph Churchill. The author keeps his own rather gaudy personality under wraps as he writes with compassion and detachment of his father's affection-starved Victorian upbringing. Little Winny was a master politician even then-wheedling, chiding, cajoling his distant parents for a little love and a little pocket money...
Cramer has been perfecting his present system for a year. He first became interested in human communication back in 1960, during a political controversy in his home town. "If a politician stood up at a bridge meeting and cried 'Wolf!' it was amazing to see how quickly the public responded, while they reacted hardly at all to authoritative information on the printed page," Cramer observed. He concluded that auditory information was far more effective than written...
...politician lecturing newsmen usually behaves in one of two ways, Michigan's Democratic Senator Philip...
Hart conceded that there is nothing wrong with slanting so long as "everyone is free to take a different slant." An adroit politician is "constantly working up ploys to make himself look a little better than he really is. Most of these ploys, incidentally, are successful." Hart gave an example from personal experience in the Senate: "A Michigan reporter in Washington wrote a piece that carried the headline HART EMERGING AS A LEADER IN THE SENATE, which...
...insistence forced both parties to endorse plans for an open, state-wide primary -- and therein lies the key to Roosevelt's comeback. He has shown that in many ways he is an instinctively good politician. Unlike O'Connor, who often appears haggard on the speaker's platform from lack of sleep, FDR Jr. is able to stay unruffled by dozing off as his campaign moves from one stump to the next. He has turned up some of the best issues of the campaign, including the embarrassing facts about O'Connor's anti-rent control stand in the state legislature...