Word: subjectively
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...subject of the tariff on shoes [March 28]: I buy Italian street and dress shoes and German hiking shoes because they fit and are comfortable. I find that most American shoes make my feet hurt, and they appear to be getting more and more uncomfortable as the years go by. As a matter of fact, we need tariffs on meat and grain as well as sugar, or I, as a farmer, won't be able to afford any shoes...
...done anything differently," he says. "I have no second thoughts at all. There is a much closer relationship between me and [Soviet Party Chief Leonid] Brezhnev-and between [Secretary of State Cyrus] Vance and [Soviet Ambassador Anatoli] Dobrynin-than anyone knows about." He says that "encouraging" communications on the subject are taking place between Moscow and Washington on a regular basis...
...foreign aid request. "We're going to lose Africa," Carter says to Moore, "if we don't do something to help those poorer countries." Moore is instructed to tell Congress that "we've got to have some way to meet the challenge." On the subject of congressional recalcitrance over the $50 tax rebate, Moore tells the President: "[Senate Majority Leader Robert] Byrd called in four people yesterday to have lunch with them. He's got them turned around. You might give him a call today just to thank...
Abrahamsen himself has no qualms about treating a living subject without permission. Says he: "It would be more irresponsible if we didn't make people aware of who Nixon was and what he is." Abrahamsen wrote the book to warn Americans about politicians' psychology and also in fear that Nixon will return to public life. Given Abrahamsen's thinly supported theories, however, even confirmed Nixon-haters might be tempted to think that the poor man deserves a better job of analysis...
Abortion is not a subject about which people have no opinion one way or the other. As to the Meaning of Words uses no real names, but it is a documentary drama based on the 1975 Boston trial of Dr. Kenneth Edelin in which he was convicted of manslaughter for an abortion he had performed, a jury decision that was later reversed. The new play, at Stamford, Conn.'s Hartman Theater Company, marks the debut of Mark Eichman, 27. He sticks fairly closely to the reported facts. As a result, Act I, at least, verges on a classroom dissertation...