Word: carterized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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SENTENCED. Albert Nipon, 57, dress manufacturer whose softly styled, femininely frilled designs have adorned screen stars, businesswomen and First Ladies Rosalynn Carter and Nancy Reagan; to three years in prison, after pleading guilty in federal court last February to charges of income tax evasion and conspiracy to defraud, involving the bribery of two Internal Revenue Service agents; in Philadelphia...
...Richard Nixon, political adversity, in the form of Viet Nam and Watergate, made it painful to move around much in the country. (Four decades earlier, Herbert Hoover had suffered similar imprisonment by the Depression; he was not much of a mixer even in good times.) Nixon and Jimmy Carter were more or less reclusive Presidents by temperament. Reagan's curiosity is well contained. Eisenhower was somewhat less gregarious than the famous grin suggested; age and illness cut down his energy and perhaps his curiosity. Harry Truman was a parochial President in his friendships...
...loving extroverts, but it takes a burning intensity of ambition and ego to seek the presidency today, to undergo the brutally long campaigning, the probing eye of the press. There are surely tensions between the driving purpose inside the man and the requirement for surface affability and calm. Jimmy Carter was something of a loner even when he played host to several hundred Georgians on the South Lawn of the White House. The Reagans, with all their graceful entertaining and the President's old-shoe geniality, are said to be "very private people." The ability to tune out on many...
...certitudes. Not since Harry Truman, very possibly, has a President been so confident he was right. There are plentiful hazards in that, but also many assets for a democratic leader. Reagan would not have chosen as one of his favorite messages the Reinhold Niebuhr line that Carter used to quote: "The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world." Reagan is not a big ambiguity...
MONTREAL--Hubie Brooks--one of four players traded for Gary Carter last winter--paced an 11-hit attack with four RBI, while Tim Wallach cracked his first homer of the season as the Montreal Expos beat the St. Louis Cardinals 10-5 yesterday...