Word: ascendant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...handful of Presidents whose greatness is all but universally conceded. Mount Rushmore epically displays the main clutch of them - Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt. A few more might be added -Jackson, Wilson, F.D.R. It is too soon to say which, if any, of the recent Presidents will ascend to the same folk pantheon. But the ghosts already there are quite likely astir in the elusive archetypal President...
...Wall Street law firm of Bass and Marshall is a curious sort of servitude. The associates are liveried in Brooks Brothers suits, their glass-box sweatshop has Oriental rugs, and the minimum wage is $27,000 a year. If they slave night and day for eight years, they may ascend to partnership and gain the privilege of exploiting other associates. Along the way, their brains turn into stuffed briefcases, and their souls are lost to mean ambition...
...tough, idiosyncratic guides who scratch a living from the surrounding Alps. He offers a beguiling portrait of his friend and mentor Claude Jaccoux, who is to climbers what Vince Lombardi was to football players. "I don't want you to panic," Jaccoux tells Bernstein as they prepare to ascend a pitch only slightly less steep than the side of the Empire State Building. Faced with such a command, Bernstein obeys. He draws an equally revealing picture of Equipment Designer Yvon Chouinard, whose 1972 catalogue quotes Einstein: "A perfection of means and confusion of aims seems to be our main...
...hang up their debut gowns and to practice the Presentation in the ballroom. Picking their way among trails of plastic cedar, they listen as a sleepy-eyed Youngblood explains the procedure: the announcer will call out each girl's name; holding a bouquet of white roses, she will then ascend the platform, curtsey to the audience, then march down the hall and latch back onto her father's arm. They run through it once, simulating the rose bouquets with short ropes of the plastic cedar...
...believe that he is finished, not even close to it. Despite the disappointments and the brutal punishment he has taken in the streets, he feels it is his duty to protect the throne and thus his country. He believes one day his son, Crown Prince Reza, 18, will ascend the throne. But not now, not even under a regency council. The Shah wants his heir to have a viable monarchy, not a weak one. As for talk about a constitutional monarchy, the Shah believes Iran already...