Word: carterized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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REAGAN HAD CREATED A teflon presidency. Issues which would have destroyed most presidents seemed to roll off this one. (Imagine Carter or Nixon joking that the "bombing will begin in five minutes.") Most recently the president emerged from the Daniloff Affair and the Reykjavik non-summit touting the two events as policy touchdowns when they could more appropriately be considered safeties or touchbacks at best. The arms deal was provoked by the hubris the White House had developed over its ability to sell ideas...
...Reagan enters the seventh year of his presidency, recent events have emphasized that his approach to the presidency is disturbingly similar to that of the elder psychiatrist. Whereas Jimmy Carter aged prematurely during his presidency because of his workaholic's attention to details, Reagan's detachment from the daily workings of his Administration have enabled him to appear younger and rosier every year. But while detachment from the demanding work of the presidency may be physically healthy, it inevitably leads to a breakdown of the president's immunity to policy failure. The recent discovery of the "Contramania" scandal reveals...
...Overture and Incidental Music for a `Midsummer Night's Dream'" develops a name in Shakespeare's play into a character, the Herm. This creature is simultaneously the source of desire and puzzlement to all the denizens of the forest--from Puck, who is a hairy, horny little bugger in Carter's fantasy, to Oberon and Titania...
...Carter has turned the little Indian boy who catalyzes the action in Shakespeare's play into a hermaphrodite. Everybody wants him. The Herm, however, is different: "What does the Herm want? The Herm wants to know what `want' means...
...each story Carter, like the Herm, seems to take on two natures, historian and psychologist, or antiquarian and storyteller, or feminist and philosopher. Although she might be called one or all of these things, in the end she defies any rubric. She tantalizes, she informs, she delights. She may occasionally mystify, but good writers do that...