Word: age
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...some ways, the President is symptomatic of the political age. The procession of candidates now forming to challenge Carter in the 1980 election reflects fundamental problems of leadership. The two who display some size and fire, John Connally and Ted Kennedy (who is resolutely undeclared but watching with interest), come with reputations shadowed by their pasts. California Governor Jerry Brown, with his sleek vocabularies of "planetary realism," sounds like an item from The Whole Earth Catalog. Brown possesses a disco Jesuit allure and what seems to be a gut instinct for the politics of the future...
Here and on the following pages, TIME identifies some of them. The 200 young leaders of five years ago were all 45 years old or younger. This time the age limit remains the same. But only 50 leaders were sought, not because of a diminished pool of talent but because many of the previous 200 would once again qualify?they still have not reached...
...positions," says Carter's special assistant on women's issues. A graduate of the University of Texas Law School and a Texas state legislator for five years, Attorney Weddington worked to reform the state's sexual abuse laws and equalize commercial credit requirements for women. In 1973, at the age of 28, she won the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case that affirmed a woman's right to choose to have an abortion. Since Weddington replaced Midge Costanza last November, Carter has increased the number of women in top Administration spots; former Attorney General Griffin Bell raised female federal judgeships from...
...college. Although he attended the University of Chicago and Harvard, Botstein believes that in an increasingly complex world the traditional college can provide a vital educational function quite different from that of large, research-oriented universities. He has buttressed his argument with an impressive performance. In 1970, at the age of 23, he became one of the youngest college presidents in American history when he took over and briefly revived New Hampshire's failing and nonaccredited Franconia College. At 28, Botstein, the son of two Polish refugee doctors, became president of Bard College in New York's Hudson Valley...
...Haviaras has need of this discipline. He writes of his coming of age between his ninth and thirteenth year in German-occupied Greece. The consistent thread piecing together this collection of incidents is not only the visionary quality of the prose, but the pagan innocence of the boy's view of events. There is a horror, an almost surrealistic quality to some of the incidents. Everything attains an almost symbolic importance. The enemy, for instance, turns the monastery into a prison...