Word: action
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...action never let up." So said TIME'S White House correspondent Christopher Ogden last week, describing both Jimmy Carter's drive to strengthen his Administration and our Washington bureau's efforts to cover and interpret the fast-breaking developments. While that task occupied the entire bureau, as well as TIME correspondents around the world, no one was more deeply engaged in the process than Ogden. It was 1:30 Monday morning last week when TIME completed its coverage of the President's dramatic Sunday night address (copies of the magazine were in the hands of readers...
...inexperienced in housing matters, but she shook up the department, which had been demoralized by past scandals, and gave it a solid sense of purpose. Declared one veteran official: "For the first time, I think we have a sense of mission and movement." Within the agency, she stressed affirmative action in promoting women, blacks and hispanics. Of Harris' appointees half are women, 21% are black and 7% are hispanics. Comptroller General Elmer Staab praised HUD, under Harris, for becoming "a forerunner in dealing with program fraud." Harris strongly pushed subsidized housing for the poor, the repair rather than abandonment...
This is a disorganized and sometimes insensitive Jimmy Carter, overreacting to demands for leadership in an effort to save himself, seemingly unable to look ahead and see how his actions will affect the country. This is an uncertain Jimmy Carter trying to show how tough he is. It is true that many influential voices pleaded with Carter to be more decisive. Given his dismal political prospects and his genuine personal distress over the national attitude, an environment for extreme action was created, to which Carter responded...
Jaffe, it seems, hoped depth of character would make up for lack of direction and action in the plot lines. But each attempt at psychological depth, at developing a character or portraying a crucial moment comes off like so much slop thrown at these cardboard figures to keep the readers interested. Jumping from one woman to another and updating us on their lives requires a lot of fast stepping. Jaffe doesn't turn in much of a performance, however. If you want to see the finale you have to wade through 300 pages of tedium. Expect to be disappointed. There...
...pulled the proposal off the table during the last couple of days." He does not plan to make an issue of it this year, although he admires the West German system of having some workers serve as directors. As a civilian police commissioner in Detroit, Fraser insisted on affirmative-action hiring policies within the police force...