By William Rose Benet The New Yorker, December 15 , 1934P. 27 Within the close the lawn is green and trim, View Article By Jelani Cobb By David Remnick By Jia Tolentino By Jia Tolentino.
David Plouffe, a senior adviser to President Obama and one of the chief architects of his 2008 victory, accused Mitt Romney of trimming his views for political gain and lacking the conviction needed to hold high office.
But committee leaders hoped to draw out colleagues for what is termed a "blank slate" process designed to wrest honest input from politicians usually given to trimming their views to protect incumbency.
Richard Eyre's The Ploughman's Lunch shows a media professional cutting and trimming his views to accommodate the new political reality of Thatcher's Britain in the 1980s: this, among the "Thatcherite" films of the era, was perhaps the shrewdest in imagining the corporate future.
There seems to be a growing expectation that any vaguely coherent Muslim, certainly if they enter professional or public life, needs to take sides, make their position clear, constantly trim their views to incorporate the necessary ritual condemnation of extremists.
Trimmer viewed this project as a failure.
Most people have to trim their views at one time or another, though I have watched journalists smuggling dissenting opinions into even the Murdoch press with admiration for years.
Specific charges include stacking government advisory panels with scientists with ties to industry or strong religious views, trimming evidence for global warming from reports and Web pages, and gagging government scientists from discussing controversial results.
Trimmer's view of fairy tales, although often ridiculed by modern critics, was widespread at the end of the eighteenth century, in part because most educators accepted John Locke's theory that the mind was a tabula rasa and therefore particularly sensitive to impressions early in life.
