Word: sharpening
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sharpen it, Carter plans to issue many position papers on issues such as urban problems, the economy and the plight of minorities. He will also emphasize the same issues used in the primaries?tax and welfare reform and Government reorganization?though he probably will divulge few new details to keep himself from becoming an easy target for Republicans...
Gergen, who joined the Nixon White House in 1971, was brought in to improve coordination among Administration spokesmen. He will also continue to perform a delicate but important role-helping to sharpen the President's public statements. Ford, an uninspiring orator, has generally depended for his texts on his old friend and former congressional assistant, Robert Hartmann, Counsellor to the President and his chief speechwriter. Some critics have found Hartmann's drafts to be thin and full of platitudes. Gergen is expected to upgrade presidential pronouncements, though he will still not have direct authority over Hartmann...
...Unlike those of most universities, the program is not designed to train students to go directly on the stage after graduation. Explains Seltzer: "I am not interested in increasing the number of unemployed actors. I believe that a study of theater is the best way to expand minds and sharpen emotions." Indeed only a small percentage of the 200 students enrolled in program courses intend to become professional actors. Says Seltzer: "We're building creative audiences...
...restore a sense of transgression, to sharpen guilt. Taboos hold out the promise of resonance and tension, of eroticism itself...
PRINCETON-COLGATE--I mentioned a month ago that Princeton will be the prime contender for the Ivy crown, and I'm sticking by it. The Tigers sharpen their claws in this non-league encounter against a tough Colgate squad. Princeton 24, Colgate...