Word: suggestibility
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...looks like the position of U.S. Vice President is due for a new job description. I suggest: liaison official who brings football to the rescue of Government. Expert on defense, any line...
Wilson's strong suit has been his shrewd tactical sense-that of a cunning strategist who knew how to pick his way through, as he once put it, "political traps and minefields." Always a much more complex man than his natural ebullience and everpresent pipe suggest, he provides few glimpses of his inner self and has no close political cronies. At 58, his tastes, like his upbringing as the son of a Yorkshire industrial chemist, are unpretentious: detective stories, raspberries, a nip of brandy. Each summer, he spends three weeks in his cottage on the desolate Scilly Isles (where...
...single story, a monovalent logic, a rigid theology are not adequate." Among the believers in other kinds of polysolutions are psychological theorists like Norman O. Brown and R.D. Laing, each of whom, says Miller, is a "Martin Luther in the face of psychological orthodoxy." Both Brown and Laing suggest that there can be a number of equally real but mutually exclusive aspects of the self. Healing does not necessarily mean "getting it all together." Indeed, "keeping it all apart" may be the better way. Miller cites at greatest length James Hillman, therapist and author of The Myth of Analysis...
...sinking feeling in your stomach after a ground ball has somehow eluded your glove that you were sure was down as far as it could be. You also know the humiliation of having to confront your teammates' accusing glares and the derision of the fans, some of whom kindly suggest you commit suicide as the best solution to your team's fielding problem...
Though the article was discursive and heavy with detail, many editors happily rushed the story to press. After all, it was a dramatic tale whipped out on deadline. The Philadelphia Inquirer, however, wired Murphy its reservations: "Request urgent rewrite of first-person kidnap account. Suggest lead is in twelfth graf. Suggest perhaps you are too close to story. Suggest step back, take another look. Can you comply?" Constitution Associate Editor Hal Gulliver, who received the message in Murphy's absence, did not know whether to laugh or cry. So he replied: "In the unhappy event that one of your...