Word: tactics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...apprentice house painter from Salt Lake City, Chidester, 24, chose a different tactic. In a rambling letter to Utah's Republican Senator Wallace F. Bennett, Chidester attacked President Kennedy: ''Does President Kennedy think the jobs left open by our call-up will re-elect him on the basis of low unemployment? He must think we all are of low intelligence not to see through his political maneuvers. We vote for those who serve the majority well." Nothing in the letter violated Army regulations, but Chidester made the mistake of getting 74 of his buddies to sign...
...most effective reply to criticism is full information, not an attack on the critic. A common and rather tiresome tactic is the substitution of a diagnosis of the critic's motives for the provision of answers to his questions. We are so often assured that a critic's questions stem from his own emotional reactions to taboo areas, that it becomes impossible to get sensible discussion on these topics. Where there are serious questions to be asked, it should be possible to provide answers...
With Irene Hoffman (Judy Garland), Rolfe extends his tactic until he becomes a ranting inquisitor. Janning can take it no longer, and demands to make a statement: he would rather condemn himself than watch this young man turn into a Nazi on his behalf. Janning's voice drowns out Rolfe's protests: "My defense counsel would have you believe that we were not aware of concentration camps. Not aware? Where were...
...tactic in rape cases was to make the victims seem even more rapacious than the accused. When Alexander Pantages was prosecuted for violating a 17-year-old girl, Giesler first established that the girl was strong and athletic and could probably have pinned the scrawny old theater owner to the floor if she had wished to. She had arrived in court in pigtails and a little girl's dress, so Giesler asked the judge to make her wear the clothes she had worn the day of the "rape." After she showed up in a low-cut crimson gown, Pantages...
...right wing at Harvard, and with minor exceptions across the country, is calm, intelligent, and manure, motivated by the deepest concern for the protection of our traditional values. Mr. Hobson's tactic of impugning the motives of those who disagree with him is, on the contrary unintelligent and immature. Political discussion is most worthwhile when it is conducted on rational grounds. Alan E. Povey...