Word: suspect
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Such situations arise from Kilpatrick's childhood. "I was brought up a white boy in Oklahoma City in the 1920s and 1930s. I accepted segregation as a way of life. But I've come a long way. Very few of us, I suspect, would like to have our passions and profundities at age 28 thrust in our faces at 50." After he became editor of the Richmond News Leader (he was 30), Kilpatrick became an effective spokesman for Southern conservatism. His editorials were rousing pieces that got him denounced at least once in almost every General Assembly. Says...
Idyllic Atmosphere. Erikson accepted and stayed on, gradually putting aside his notion of the artist's life as he became more deeply involved in the almost idyllic atmosphere that surrounded the master. Analysis was shorter then and less formal; social relations between doctor and patient were not yet suspect. Erikson taught the children, was analyzed by Anna Freud and gradually became a practicing child analyst himself. He has no university degree...
...deplores wiretapping, which Attorney General John Mitchell has sharply expanded, as a license for political harassment and an invasion of privacy. But he also presents it as a paradigm of police inefficiency. It may take 20 men to install one tap, often by breaking and entering the suspect's home, plus as many as six more men to monitor the tap, often for months and months in which they could be gathering solid evidence instead of recording mostly innocent chatter. Clark's Justice Department shunned bugging-but in 1968 somehow managed to indict 1,166 figures from organized...
...worked once with grapes. In this frame of mind, we can be rather startled when our administrators defend their position on lettuce by admitting that their policy on grapes had been equally impervious to moral argument. We knew that Harvard had stopped buying grapes, but little did we suspect prohibitive prices to be the reason...
...this then what destroyed Elvis? We suspect so, but all we are certain of is that nowhere do we see the dynamic performer we have been led to suspect. Elvis wears a tight, one piece jumpsuit with an almost Elizabethan collar. It is close to self-parody, except that the costume has no fly, no seam at the croch, and it is too white, too clean and spotless. Not an extension of Elvis personality, it's like a piece of plastic that has been pressed onto his body, like cellophane melted over and onto a couple of thighs of chicken...