Word: revealing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ford's intention, however, was to have Rockefeller announce his withdrawal first and to reveal the other changes later. That would not only separate the political and staff issues but give conservatives a reason to be so pleased with Rocky's demise that the Schlesinger dismissal might seem only a sop to the party's moderates and liberals...
...bewildering bureaucratic dilemma: How do Government agencies reconcile the Freedom of Information Act with the traditional laws protecting personal privacy? Last week Mrs. Michaels was back in court to demand that the SSA prove that her husband is alive. In reply, Government attorneys insisted that the SSA could not reveal any information about...
...best remembered, although Rationale contains enough ravings against the inauthenticities of popular culture to earn him another title -the Carrie Nation of kitsch. He is also the Joe McCarthy of heterosexuality who looks for gays under every bed, a man who professes to love woman but whose opinions reveal a lover of the Vic torian idea of Woman, and a Jeremiah who sees the world ending in nuclear war or a fecal flood of pollution...
...Channah lives; as the bachelor Vishkover, he is incapable of force or originality. But it is here that his best self survives, a peasant from the other side, unsophisticated and uncorrupted by ambition or guile. Decades later, when Palka's wife dies, he still cannot bring himself to reveal his true identity. "Who is Sam Palka?" he asks himself. "An old lecher who has made a fortune and doesn't know what to do with it. David Vishkover is a man like my father, peace be with him. Well - and what would happen to Channah Basha...
...name, but generally it's an overused gimmick that's been done well a couple of times. Boccacio first used this trick in the Decameron, upon which Chaucer modeled Canterbury Tales. The idea is to get some people together in a place where they will reveal themselves through some telling story or action. Usually a new perspective breathes life into this old hack's trick. But in Philadelphia, Anyone? the perspective seems almost as old as its technique...