Word: closers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...successful summit in the Maryland mountains is not a cure for Carter's leadership problem. But surely it is a kind of achievement at the critical time needed to bring people a little closer to their President, to silence for the moment a lot of petty grievances that grew bigger than they should have THE WHITE HOUSE because of Carter's fumbling. It worked that way for John Kennedy in 1963, when after the Cuban missile crisis he successfully completed the nuclear test-ban treaty with the Soviet Union. And even Richard Nixon, never really...
Carter, of course, will not only have to moderate the personality differences between Begin and Sadat but he will also have to bring the two closer together on the major substantive questions. To pick the moment and choose the issue for his interventions in the discussion, he will need a masterly sense of timing and nuance, a quality that he has not yet definitively demonstrated. He may be helped by the powerful mystique of his office. Explained one Administration aide involved in the summit: "There is something unique about the position of the presidency, and both the other guys know...
...Others feel that Mehta is an antidote to Boulez's astringency, and that he will bring back some of the fire of the Bernstein days. "Boulez was not trying to reach the audience with spontaneous feeling, or luscious phrasing," says Violinist Oscar Ravina. "We'll be coming closer to that kind of thing with Mehta...
...most articulate scientist. The matter that formed the hole has long since disappeared, like Alice in Wonderland's Cheshire cat, leaving behind only the disembodied grin of its gravity. From afar, that gravity has the same effect on objects in space as it did when its matter existed. But closer...
...stretched spaghetti-thin, pulverized by gravitational tidal forces, and sucked into the singularity. To an observer outside?say an astronaut watching his abandoned craft plunge into the black hole?the result would be different. Because of relativistic effects, the spacecraft would appear to move ever more slowly, and closer and closer to the event horizon, without ever reaching...