Word: pre
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...After a pre-convention week of sordid chicanery, the delegates rose up on a moral issue and stopped the Taft steamroller. Five hours later, Douglas MacArthur, in an unforgettable address, diagnosed the ills of the Republic and offered a cure-the Constitution...
...pre-convention campaign had tested several techniques of television political coverage. One of the most widely used is the panel discussion, which tends, unless rehearsed, to be a hash of unrelated statements. When it is rehearsed, it tends to be a cliche contest. The giant "press conference" is another waste of time in most cases, although occasionally (e.g., Ike's first press conference at Abilene) it comes to life. One of the most successful TV techniques is the small press conference, with one public man and eight or ten really well-trained reporters...
...seems to resemble a sorcerer rather than a psychiatrist. He loves to sprinkle his writing with scholastic terms from the Middle Ages. His home is filled with strange Asiatic sculptures. He wears a curious ring, ornamented with an ancient effigy of a snake, the bearer of light in the pre-Christian Gnostic cult. When hard at work, he often disappears for days into a towered, castlelike hideaway across the Lake of Zurich, where he does his own cooking, and diverts himself by chopping wood and carving esoteric inscriptions on large blocks of granite. Jung has long since given...
...Microtherm, a machine which uses radar waves to apply heat to sprains, sore muscles, infected sinuses, etc. Hospitals have pronounced it far more efficient than the pre-radar heat machines, so far have bought...
...photograph their clearings, but that is about as close as anyone gets to the Motilones. Attempts to conciliate them, or even to talk with them, are met with flights of arrows out of the jungle. Their customs, language and religion remain a mystery. Presumably they have not changed since pre-Spanish times...