Word: understood
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Powell limited the damage by apologizing to Percy, who graciously accepted, saying he understood that "emotions were running high" at the White House. Powell reported that he had told Carter that his action had been "inappropriate, regrettable and dumb-and the President did not disagree with my assessment." As Powell also apologized to the Washington press corps, Hamilton Jordan slipped a chrome-plated artillery round onto the podium. Attached was a note: "Although you get close to getting lead poisoning from biting the bullet, you won't. This, too, shall pass." It was signed, "Bert...
...long time ago, Robert Frost said he disliked college because the professors not only knew the answers but knew the questions. The old man understood media truth when media were still referred to as the press. Questions, not answers, preside. If you can get enough sober people asking enough loaded questions, you have carried the day or at least confused it beyond redemption. As I traveled, sports fans seemed to have lost every sense of focus...
...University: "Interest in Hitler within my own generation has increased considerably lately. But this is not to be interpreted as a sudden infection with the ideas that our parents and grandparents once carried. For the majority of us, Hitler remains an enigmatic, almost ridiculous phenomenon. Though we have never understood it, there is no reason why we should not at least try to find...
...Times, of course, is not just another home-town daily, a genre that has long understood its local service? magazine functions. Though pressed by the Washington Post, the Times remains the best newspaper in the U.S. It is the platinum bar by which editors across the country measure their own papers. Except for the heavily financial Wall Street Journal (circ 1,465,000), the Times is the closest approximation in the U.S. to a national newspaper. Fully one-quarter of its readers live more than 100 miles from New York City. (One such subscriber is Jimmy
...hand as one of those movie scientists whose precise discipline is unexplained but whose function is to ex plain - and explain - to the less enlightened that they must not underestimate the wit and sensitivity of the animal kingdom. This is a big mistake. Melville - even Peter Benchley - understood that it is best not to humanize the creatures of the deep too much. They are more frightening if perceived as imponderable forces...