Word: charisma
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Boxing will indeed survive, but championship prize money will not be the same. Ali's charisma has helped a number of heavyweight opponents into the upper-income brackets. During his own career, Ali has earned more than $10 million in purses alone, not including next week's fortune. Were George Foreman fighting anyone else, the take would not be half as large...
Downgrading Charisma. In his first years in office, Rocky was thought to be a liberal; subsequently, he seemed to grow more conservative. But he shrugs off labels. "Politics is not really my métier," he says. "My real interest is in solving people's problems." He is totally impatient with ideologists who hold "positions which may have no relation to reality, the don't-confuse-me-with-facts kind of people." Though he has plenty of that quality described as charisma, he downgrades it. "We're getting away from charismatic politicians, which is a good thing...
...economic matters could prove attractive to voters, especially if Ford does poorly in the fight against inflation. But Jackson, who does his homework and is known as an "issues man," often overstresses his issues. Besides, he is dull. It is hard to see him overcoming either the Kennedy charisma or Ford's open charm...
...Government confer economic benefits upon the people. The sinister greed that lies beneath the surface in all of us came out in the open and, from that time on, we voted for whatever charlatans promised us the most. Change will come when, and only when, men of character, intelligence, charisma and courage rise up to tell us the truth about ourselves. We may have to wait a long time...
These are clearly the exceptions, however, and extremely rare ones at that. Historically, male-dominated societies have been willing enough to accept female monarchs who came to power by succession as well as women of great charisma or excellent family connections. But more often men have been reluctant to regard women as equals, much less as superiors. According to Betty Friedan, whose book The Feminine Mystique established her as the founding mother of women's liberation in the U.S.: "Women have made amazing progress. But they are hardly present in any numbers as leaders...