Word: suggestibility
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nothing about prep schools when I got to Harvard, I soon realized that they are the source of endless snide remarks. I met preppies who were truly embarrassed about their background. (Of course, there were those who prided themselves on where they had prepped.) In retrospect, I can only suggest facing up to where you are from and trying to understand how much of Harvard is you and how much of you is Harvard...
...said. Indeed, it has not officially canceled the auction, but neither has it ever sent out invitations to Western oil companies to bid. Possibly the Saudis are waiting for some indication from the new Ford Administration of just how much the U.S. values Arab cooperation. But most oil analysts suggest a different reason: however sincere the Saudis may be in their desire to cut oil prices, they are reluctant to disrupt the powerful cartel formed by the twelve members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries. King Faisal's government apparently feels that it cannot move unless it gets...
...when a group of Southern California Republicans urged him to challenge five-term Democratic Congressman Jerry Voorhis. His prospective sponsors first wanted to know whether Nixon was in fact a Republican. "I guess so," he replied. "I voted for Dewey." Voorhis was an earnest liberal, but Nixon managed to suggest that he was a dangerous left-winger by linking him to the radical California Political Action Committee...
...strongwilled, emotional and impatient." Some who were troubled by Richard Nixon's apparent rootlessness, that strange plastic quality of speech, thought and behavior that some how failed to suggest the traces of a home town or a home region, blamed this phenomenon on California, often seen as a state of uprooted migrants and shallow or phony culture. That analysis was unfair to California. Whatever it was that made Nixon seem so oddly awkward and synthetic must be looked for in himself...
...alarming inflation rate, higher than anything the U.S. had known in peacetime; while much of it had to do with international factors beyond U.S. control, it represented, aside from Watergate itself, the Nixon Administration's worst failure. By midsummer 1974, the Administration's only policy was to suggest that slower growth and budgetary restraint, even at the cost of some rise in unemployment, would eventually reduce inflation. To be sure, not many businessmen or economists, liberal or conservative, had much else to suggest...