Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While we're on the subject of "silly talk," Merwin debunks another myth--that poets can analyze their inspiration. "People get very smart and canny about it, but finally it escapes you. Isn't that great that you can never sort of get the jump on it...It's always smarter than you are." Another fleet of ambulances crosses Mt. Auburn Street...
Erik, a wiry freckled boy, mischievous and smart, skips to the back of the room to visit Keith. "How ya doin'?" asks Erik. They chat...
...Both. I do a lot of running around. I'm so lucky because I have energetic, caring, smart, committed people, and so it makes my life a lot more fun. We have a great time...
Even so, some people are scared to death of her. One aide says the problem comes in mixing up "formidable" with "frightening." He says, "She has all the protective, wifely instincts of, say, Nancy Reagan, but then on top of that she is very smart, and so nothing gets by her, nothing." Hillary even took a hand in making office assignments for the West Wing. "We were looking at this floor plan and, presto, she had a layout it would have taken an industrial engineer weeks to figure. Not everybody was happy, but she got it right." Hillary does...
...Presidents are arrogant of course -- even the determinedly friendly George Bush, who delighted in telling subordinates, "If you're so smart, how come I'm the one who's President?" The problem is undisciplined arrogance. As Clinton has threatened to withhold patronage from Democratic defectors and to campaign against Republican opponents, so did his model, Roosevelt. But F.D.R. wooed the G.O.P. assiduously -- "and so did Ronald Reagan," says a Clinton aide. "He made heroes of the Boll Weevils," conservative Democrats who delivered the margins of victory for Reagan's program. "All we've really done is wield the stick. That...