Word: cincinnatus
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Wright, a member and leader of the state Senate for 17 years, was called a modern-day Cincinnatus by a local newspaper, after the Roman farmer who set aside his plow to save the Republic: he says he saw the chaos in the G.O.P.-controlled Congress and felt a "call" to go to Washington. Wright supports a balanced-budget amendment, tax cuts and welfare reform that moves people into the workplace...
...neutralize voters' concerns about Clinton's inexperience on the world stage. Characteristically, Lake was not hanging around Little Rock or jockeying for West Wing office space. He had already returned to his cows, his close-knit family and his students at Mount Holyoke College. Friends tease him about being Cincinnatus, but his love of rural independence is no act. "I moved up here because I did not want to spend the next however many years of my life trying to get some job in Washington," he says. "I just have a very happy life here." But high office -- National Security...
...White House, he put his fate in the hands of anonymous "volunteers." Their success at getting him on all 50 state ballots, he said, would be the deciding factor. Now that he is moving to return to the race, the Texas billionaire is again posing as a selfless Cincinnatus, standing ready to do the people's bidding. His decision to become a candidate again, he said last week, would come "from the bottom up." He added, "This is not three or four guys in a smoke-filled room deciding what we ought to be told...
...Independence from age 6 to 21, the formative years. His circle was made up of well-to-do youngsters, and his intellectual companions in a superb high school were Mark Twain, Dickens, Plutarch, Tennyson and Shakespeare. He studied Chopin, Mendelssohn and Paderewski on the piano. His heroes included Cincinnatus, Scipio and Cyrus II the Great. He never played football, basketball or baseball. You might even say that in his place and time he was elitist...
...knows," a young Harry Truman wrote to his future wife Bess, "maybe I'll be like Cincinnatus and be elected constable someday." The ideal of the noble citizen reluctantly laying down his plow to spend a few years cleaning up his government is deeply appealing to most Americans, especially now during this open season on professional politicians. Such sentiments account for the burst of enthusiasm greeting Ross Perot and for the best-sellerdom that inevitably awaits David McCullough's loving and richly detailed megabiography of Truman...