Word: suggester
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...offers endless, some would say interminable, hours of football and basketball, without either a sense of humor or a sense of proportion. The last is just as well for CBS. Football players have been fed and exercised into gargantuan size. Basketball players have been crossbred with giraffes. CBS announcers suggest we identify with football and basketball stars. I identify more easily with King Kong (in the original black-and-white version...
...good many at the limes. There some reporters and editors Complain that important news is playing second artichoke to investigative reports on vegetables and hot scoops on wicker furniture Newsroom cynics jest that it is difficult to get a story into the paper without a recipe attached. Others suggest that the Times augment Living with a weekly section called Dying, filled with obituaries and funeral-parlor ads, and launch a new insert called News. A hapless reporter, so one routine goes, was sent to cover a flower show for Living, missed the crucial unveiling of a new strain of begonia...
...dispenses $1,700 a month in Publisher's Awards to the writers of stories deemed exceptional. In both instances he often accepts Rosenthal's recommendations. Sulzberger does suggest occasional news stories and editorials (he was actively involved in last week's endorsement of Mayoral Candidate Mario Cuomo) and chooses all columnists. One discovery: former Nixon Speechwriter William Safire, whom he hired in 1973 after meeting him at a dinner party. The publisher often attends Rosenthal's 3:45 p.m. front-page conference but rarely speaks up. He skips the once-weekly "Bust Their Ass" meeting, where editors discuss investigative stories...
...male may try to hide the fact, thus tricking a new male into investing his time and resources in offspring?and genes?that are not his. In the long run, however, natural selection sharpens up both the ability to cheat and the ability to detect cheating. Trivers and Dawkins suggest that the need for deceit?and for its detection?may have been responsible for the rapid enlargement of the human brain during the Pleistocene...
Marxist sociologists suggest that we see ourselves in the cars we choose. Young, assertive, loud, one is a Triumph or a Porsche. As we become more burdened, we evolve into Ford station wagons. Last seen of all that ends this strange eventful history, a man becomes a settled sedan: perhaps a Seville. Perhaps a used 1967 Chevy...