Word: charisma
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...purely cold-blooded reasons, Washington is unwilling to cozy up to Castro at this point. For one thing, it wants his somewhat tarnished charisma to lose a little more of its luster before he is welcomed back into the family of hemisphere states. For another, it is quite content to see Moscow go on spending $1.5 million a day to prop up Castro's economically troubled regime...
...moves, for instance, are making it easier for Syrian President Hafez Assad to convince his Baathist regime to relax restrictions on the private investment that Damascus also needs. More significantly, Sadat is finally reclaiming the Arab leadership that Egyptians had traditionally enjoyed and Nasser once held. Nasser's charisma, however, worked mainly on the masses, many of whom still listen to broadcasts of his old speeches (some of them insist that he is well and living in the Soviet Union and that he will one day return). Sadat's approach is more to the Arab leaders with whom...
...Nixon has restored to the office of the presidency the true concept of that office. Perhaps for the first time since Woodrow Wilson, we have a President who does not need to rely on charisma, who has been able to overcome the cult of personality, and who has treated the office of the presidency as a true institution, not a personality extension. I am proud to stand beside him and to support him fully...
GRATEFUL DEAD--My grudge against the Dead has little to do with the group, whose singing, playing and songwriting ability and charisma are universally acknowledge. It's just that every Dead freak I've known insists on playing Dead albums endlessly or sitting me down to hear "just the greatest song you've ever heard," They're not my favorite group, but it doesn't matter. Anyone going to this concert no doubt planned two months ago to attend. Be grateful the concert isn't taking place in New York where the smoking pleasures Dead audiences indulge in now earn...
...over their nations, but they oppose it in the name of Argentina or Egypt and not in the name of international brotherhood. Authoritarian nationalist regimes, lacking a coherent view of the world and their tnterdependent place in it, generally fail to develop their nations industrially. They find surviving on charisma alone difficult. As a distorted and useless response to imperial domination, authoritarian nationalism merely underscores imperialism's crippling effects in subject nations...