Word: action
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...former sheriff, admittedly poorly-versed in social law, Lucas was denied approval for the post of assistant attorney general by the Senate Judiciary Committee. After the vote, conservative white senators accused their liberal counterparts of reverse racism for expecting a Black to be necessarily liberal and pro-affirmative action...
Imagine, however, a former white sheriff, responding to questions in front of the committee. When asked what this white lawyer thought of the recent Supreme Court rulings on affirmative action, he responds that he is not too familiar with most aspects of civil rights law. Would it be racism to deny his confirmation, or prudent sense...
Prior to the high court's ruling this summer, such a suit would have seemed frivolous and hopeless. But it is a measure of how far we've come--or, more accurately, how far backwards we've slid--that such ridiculous legal action could now stand a reasonable chance of success...
...those who acted dramatically in crisis," said Roger Porter last week. Porter is a Harvard scholar on the presidency, on loan as the President's economic-and-domestic- policy adviser, thus being granted a rare chance to witness the chemistry of leadership. "We have tended to equate success and action. We sometimes confuse action with accomplishment. A President is instantly under enormous pressure to 'do something.' It is vitally important for him to have his emotions under control...
Water is not the director's friend. Actors immersed in it do not have many opportunities for sharp repartee. It provides no cover for the villain to sneak up on the hero. It turns action sequences into exercises in slow motion. It is costly to work in and obscures expensive and imaginative special-effects work...