Word: undercutting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Those documents also tended to undercut the emerging White House attempts to portray Ehrlichman and Haldeman as acting on Watergate only in response to the President's concern over security, while lesser aides became over-zealous about political considerations. Pretrial depositions by Ehrlichman and Haldeman in a Democratic civil suit over the Watergate activities were released last week, and in sum they pointed to former Attorney General John Mitchell and Counsel Dean as the high officials most deeply involved...
...Douglas Price, professor of Government and a specialist on voting behavior, said yesterday that although Watergate has undercut the potential arising from Nixon's landslide victory last November, it will not be a major issue in the 1976 presidential campaigns...
...admissions policy, with a single admissions office giving equal effort towards recruiting men and women. Only a conscious attempt to open Harvard on an equal basis will erode the tradition of male hegemony. If universities, nation-wide, dedicate their energy toward educating more women, they will help undercut the pre-selection of women for secondary economic roles. Sex-blind admissions simply doesn't address this current unequality...
...lingering possibility that L. Patrick Gray III would win Senate confirmation as director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation seemed to evaporate last week. First, the hapless Gray was undercut by the Nixon Administration when Attorney General Richard Kleindienst ordered him to stop talking about the FBI's investigation of the Watergate wiretapping at his confirmation hearings before the Senate Judiciary Committee. Then Gray infuriated the White House by conceding to the committee that John W. Dean III, President Nixon's chief legal counsel, probably had lied to FBI agents. All but abandoned by the Administration and under...
...humanistic psychology, as well as in much contemporary psychoanalysis, there is a new sense that man can become a more active force in shaping his life. Freud, with his emphasis on man's being driven by his unconscious, tended to undercut the notion of will. Writes Italian Psychoanalyst Roberto Assagioli: "The will can be truly called the unknown and neglected factor in modern psychology, psychotherapy and education." San Francisco Psychoanalyst Allen Wheelis agrees. "Knowledgeable moderns put their back to the couch, and in so doing may fail to put their shoulders to the wheel." But this should change. Wheelis...