Word: suggestibility
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pattern can be seen as a "checkmate" in which the subject can neither move nor choose not to move without running into contradictory and paradoxical pressures and demands. A husband might suggest, for instance, that his wife spend more time with the children and later implicitly condemn her for this. If the wife is not allowed to question the consistency of his demands, and they persist, confusion and self-doubt push the limits of sanity. A mother might ask her son for a kiss, but her body language and tone of voice tells him she doesn't really want...
Rockefeller was asked by Ford to suggest some names for the vacated top staff jobs on the Domestic Council. He nominated Cannon and Dunham -and nothing happened. Ford's own aides, including Chief of Staff Donald Rumsfeld, were reluctant to give that kind of authority to Rockefeller men. Rumsfeld's prime candidate for Cannon's job was Harvard Law Professor Phillip Areeda, who late last week announced his resignation as counsel to the President. The delay was awkward for Rockefeller. Two weeks ago, he met Ford for an hour behind the closed doors of the Oval Office...
Among the people most concerned over unfettered violence are the officials of junior-level competition. Because the Flyers' buccaneering play attracts fans-most critics suggest that is precisely why the pros fight-the ethic of war has seeped down to younger players. The trend has become so disturbing in Canada that the Ontario government recently conducted an inquiry into violence in the region's amateur hockey programs and, soon after, the Ontario Hockey Association set up new rules to halt brutality...
Lately, however, a kind of new optimism about the future size and strain-causing potential of OPEC surpluses has been gaining vogue. Several revisionist studies suggest that the OPEC surpluses may not be all that troublesome. The most sanguine of these, a "scenario" published last month by Manhattan's Morgan Guaranty Trust Co., estimates that OPEC's total surplus could peak at $248 billion in 1978, and diminish to $179 billion by the decade's end. The World Bank sharply revised its earlier prediction for 1980 down to $250 billion, expressed in 1974 dollars (that figure does...
...would like to suggest that Mr. Smith, and anyone else interested, could gain a clearer understanding of the changes by reading the first part of the February issue of BETWEEN ME-N-U. Peter L. Havens '74-3 Jeffrey W. White...