Word: astir
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...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...
Anticipating the worst, Diplomatic Correspondent Strobe Talbott and Cairo Correspondent Dean Brelis had arrived in Tehran two weeks ago. The Iranian capital was already astir; nearly all of the Cabinet ministers that Talbott had been scheduled to see were gone, fired by the Shah. But Talbott found no shortage of political leaders to interview in neighboring Pakistan; they were alarmed by the plight of the beleaguered Shah and the possibility of Soviet intervention. Brelis, meanwhile, went off to the Iranian city of Qum, seat of the restless Shi'ite sect, for talks with rebelling Muslim leaders...
...access to water sports-fishing, boating, diving, skiing-as fabled Californians (about one-third of all the nation's outboard motors are owned by Southerners). Forest-product firms that have made loblolly pine a prime component of pulp and paper have also greened the South with new woodlands astir with game...
...must have been the times when The Alchemist was written. Whitten does not seriously intend to reveal the power-broking behind the scenes--he only wants to tell a story beside which real government seems reasonable. The Alchemist is a diversion, and no thinly-disguised characters have set Washington astir...
Over the summer, with Richard Nixon's initiative toward China and his startling economic campaigns, foreign and domestic, an unfamiliar sense of drama has overtaken the Administration. Last week, as the President headed for his Alaskan meeting with Japan's Emperor Hirohito, and mainland China seemed astir with mysterious movement (see THE WORLD), there was anticipation of further surprises...