Word: suggestibility
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While the institutions of great scale fall apart around our ears, the proprietors of those institutions recognize that decentralization urgently is required--but they see and suggest the requirement only as a function of the Great Institutions...
That is not to suggest that the citizen need always be pleased, or even satisfied, with the acts or omissions of his delegates or of the state itself. It does demand, however, that the acts and omissions of the state derive in some fashion from the wishes of elected officials. Accountability has meaning only if those whom we reward or punish for their behavior have indeed had some control or potential for control over the events by which we evaluate them. How futile and self-deceiving it is to "throw the rascals out," if the "rascals" are as blameless...
Speaking hours after Agnew resigned, NBC'S David Brinkley-long a favorite Agnew target-described Agnew returning to Baltimore as "a tragic and almost pathetic figure." A night later, CBS'S Eric Sevareid paraphrased an English proverb to suggest that Agnew's sins dimmed in comparison with those of the Watergate malefactors: "Agnew was stealing the goose from off the common, while they were trying to steal the common from the goose...
...McGinniss, after a visit to the Watergate hearings, returns with the unsurprising news of dissension in the Senate committee and its staff. Short pieces on what people were saying about Spiro Agnew in a Baltimore bar and around Palm Springs suggest that reporters who sit around and listen might be better off going out and digging...
...interlocking motives of the Widmerpools and the two Americans suggest that Powell is heading toward some conclusion about sex, death and power. By the end of Kings it has not emerged clearly. Will his finale be an elegiac, dying fall? A vest-pocket apocalypse, with history hounding his characters as relentlessly as mortality? Hard to say. But he leaves his characters frozen in poses and gestures that have enough teasing significance to keep readers ruminating until the final volume comes...