Word: topicalism
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...highly developed country without the oil. I wished we'd never smelled the fumes of petroleum. You spoke today to teenagers in Berlin about the wisdom of your grandfather, who told you never to run from a fight. Is there a reason why you chose to speak on this topic in Europe today? It is a parable. Definitely I had in mind what is happening in Sudan: the failure to curb the aggression and the racist attitudes of the Sudanese government and the actions of the African Union on one level and the United Nations on another. So this...
...President Dan Bartlett calls Gottesman "a walking mood ring," the unquestioned authority on whom the President wants in his limo, what member of Congress he may accept in his office on Air Force One and whether it is wise for a top aide to bring up a particular topic at a particular time. "Blake is so humble and professional that advisers much older than he rely on his advice instead of resenting him," says Reed Dickens, 28, who has filled in for Gottesman...
Lehrer did not lay out a specific proposal for instituting universal service—”I’m a journalist, not a proposalist,” he said—but instead asked broad questions he hoped would frame a discussion on the topic...
...column published in the Cornell Daily Sun, staff writer Tim Kuhls broached an interesting topic of Ivy debate—athletic scholarships—and proceeded to make himself look like an idiot.” (9/30/2005...
...there’s one thing sportswriters love more than statistics, it’s proclaiming that statistics don’t tell the whole story.This makes for an easy article, by the way, especially when it’s on a topic you’ve covered to death. For a player profile, it’s practically foolproof. You rattle off the player’s statistics, catalog all their accomplishments, and then, with your reader blinded by the brilliance, denounce it all as mere numbers. You say digits can’t convey true grit, or heart...