Word: seldom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...television performer between 1959 and 1962 that handsome, red-haired John Freeman became a nationwide celebrity though British viewers of his astringent Face to Face interview show each week seldom saw anything but the back of his head as the cameras zoomed in for closeups of the object of his relentless inquisitorial style. One TV star burst into tears when questioned about his homosexual inclinations. Nixon, who submitted to a Freeman interview in 1951, impressed the future ambassador as "a very good subject indeed," even though they were poles apart in their political views...
Though the questions from the administrators seldom got as blunt as "How do you feel about riots and/or outside agitators," someone usually brought the issue into the conversation. If we talked long enough we could usually agree that black power was necessary, but when the conversation turned to means it was best to turn the conversation to something else...
Actually, the momentum of government is such that most new administrations are obliged to carry on at least some of the policies inherited from the old. Moreover, once in office, a President seldom feels that he is totally committed to his party's platform and his own campaign rhetoric. To their credit, the Nixon men have been less concerned with liberal v. conservative ideological wrangling than with specific needs and practical answers...
...extremes. Yet she is clearly an accomplished spider herself, capable of weaving metaphysical webs in fiction and enmeshing a whole gallery of ogres, Freudian and otherwise. Like the wily trapdoor spider, which retires to digest its kill behind a neat disklike door attached to its nest, Iris Murdoch is seldom visible, or visibly partisan, in her work. In Bruno's Dream, however, she seems more compassionately bemused than usual, though no less severely aware than ever that men and women are foolish creatures who neither know the world for what it is, nor themselves for what it makes...
Fetishists' motives are sad, most of them induced by the fact that pets seldom fight back. Mrs. Szasz describes parents guilt-ridden about mistreating their own children. They may try to make up for their failings by smothering their pets with love that would drive any person away. Other animal nuts are merely attempting to buy love. For still others, she quotes Sidney Jourard, a professor of psychology at the University of Florida, who suspects that in an uptight society, "the dog patter, the cat stroker, is seeking the contact that is conspicuously lacking in his adult life." "Homoneuroticus...