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...Carter comes to Washington full of high expectations at a time of low hopes. Some see a Daniel delivered over to the lions of the capital city, crouched to devour his plainness. Some quake before their own image of a Confederate Cromwell, brassy with power, bent on razing their comfortable habitations down to zero, as the Yankees razed Atlanta in the war. And many beyond the Washington swirl have been convinced that whatever else he is, Jimmy Carter is a man of mystery who will continue to engage the political dramatists for years to come...
Rather we−like all other nations in history−must now conduct diplomacy with subtlety, flexibility, persistence and imagination. We must fuse our great national assets of idealism and realism, our moral convictions and our pragmatic bent. We can no longer impose our own solutions; yet our action or inaction will influence events, often decisively. We cannot banish power from international affairs, but we can use our vast power wisely and firmly to deter aggression and encourage restraint and negotiation. We can help construct a wider community of interest among all nations. We must continue to stand for freedom...
Geoffrey G. Jackson of Peter Bent Brigham Hospital said while a medical record would not disappear from a hospital floor at Brigham, "a person could come in with a white coat and scan a record at this or any other hospital...
High atop a scaffold, a small boy floats out a paper plane. Below a woman in a man's white shirt, braces and pearl gray trousers walks up and down rapidly in a diagonal course. Her head and hands twitch programmatically. Another figure, bent like a discus thrower, balances on one foot and listens raptly to a conch shell. A man dressed like a mechanic, a red wrench protruding from his hip pocket, obsessively chalks mathematical equations in the air. A handsome gray steam engine chugs into view. From the pit a chorus raises a wordless three-note chant...
...Unable to bring himself to consent to the Act of Succession, which legitimates Henry's divorce from Catharine of Aragon, he seeks safety in silence, counting on the law to protect him. In the hands of men like Thomas Cromwell, however, the law is an instrument that can be bent, Nixon-like, to suit any ends, and More is condemned finally on the basis of suborned evidence. The quality that ensures his doom is for Bolt the very one which confirms his triumph: his unwillingness to let go of selfhood, to subordinate conscience to serpentine expeidiency...