Word: seeker
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...true snob is a complex character. He is not merely a status seeker in Vance Packard's sense of the term, or a simple showoff. (Still, touches of artful swank are essential-the polo mallet cast casually onto the back seat of the car, or the real, working buttonholes on jacket sleeves that betray the Savile Row suit.) The authentic snob shows it by his attitude toward his superiors and his inferiors. Gazing upward, he apes and fawns and aspires to a gentility that is not native to him; looking down, he snubs and sniffs and sneers at those...
...Rockefeller campaign staff, for whom Kissinger had worked, to Zbigniew Brzezinski, then Hubert Humphrey's foreign policy coordinator. Kissinger has written in his memoirs that he was approached by both campaigns for advice. But Hersh, quoting some former Nixon campaign officials, paints Kissinger as a double-dealing job seeker. Last week Kissinger angrily denied these specific charges as "a slimy lie." He said what he had read of Hersh's writings about him "is untrue, is distorted, or uses totally interested witnesses, many of whom were dismissed after a year of serving on my staff." But he refused...
...police, mostly, it seems, to assert the ascendancy of middle-class values over steaming sexual impulse. In the original movie, Jean Seberg played an American stranger in the strange French landscape. Here, of course, the roles must be reversed. France's Valerie Kaprisky plays the uprooted thrill seeker with the same air of being stunned by the outrageous message her nerve ends are sending to her brain. The major difference between the films is Gere's characterization. Jean-Paul Belmondo played the petty crook as a Bogart clone, sardonic and dour. Gere takes his beat from Jerry...
...Massachusetts law also allows such veto power over liquor licenses to schools within 500 feet of a license-seeker, but yesterday's Supreme Court ruling did not involve that aspect...
With the creation of the state of Israel in 1948, Begin adapted his militant views to politics. He was never a consensus seeker; he dominated his supporters by the force of his personality. He also sees himself as leading a kind of mission on behalf of the Jews. Says an intimate: "He still believes Jews are the victims of hatred and prejudice. Jewish blood, the sight of helpless Jews being killed by enemies and pogroms. The fear of elimination and liquidation. That's what goes through his mind all the time." Says a Begin aide: "He feels a duty...