Word: smarter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fact, after watching some of them this summer in Washington. I am convinced that columnists invariably measure the candidates against themselves. "Is this politician," they ask themselves, "smarter and tougher than I am?" If they decide yes, then everything that they subsequently write is conditioned by respect and deference. Judgment is deferred on the superior candidate's most obvious blunders, on the chance that they are not blunders at all, but strokes of genius that will become apparent by noon the day of the column's release...
...SUPPOSE THE COLUMNIST decides that he is tougher and smarter than the candidate; that the candidate himself is an outsider, whose sources of information and standing on the machismo ladder are inferior to the journalist's. Then the columnist becomes a suffering and occasionally furious papa, lecturing the candidate as if he were a twelve year...
...Black September is its ability to export terror. "They will hit anything anywhere if they believe the target is sensitive," says a fedayeen leader. Septembrists, moreover, take pains to point out that "anywhere" includes the U.S. More than that, Black September's planners and operatives are tougher and smarter than guerrillas have generally been in the past. They are frequently the products of the refugee camps in Jordan and Gaza, where more than a million Palestinians still live-and teach their children to hate Israel. Many went to the American University of Beirut and some are at present enrolled...
...teen-age girls now sew. Many of them, like Sharon Sikora of Oak Lawn, Ill., do so for the obvious reason: "I want clothes that are different." Home economics classes, long known for their "horrible aprons and dumb blouses" (as one graduate put it), now feature smarter getups, from pantsuits to prom gowns. One Park Forest, Ill., teenager, Tova Kletnick, 16, has become so expert with her own creations that she now designs and makes clothes for her friends, charging them a modest $10 per dress from first fitting to finish...
...Times article offered varied reasons for the current inflation: the rise of independent study and pass-fail grading, compensation for disadvantaged and minority students, anti-authoritarian sectionmen, and smarter and more serious students...