Word: coleman
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Shirley MacLaine, who kicked off the show, sang a new version of Cy Coleman's It's Not Where You Start (the last lines: "It's where you finish/ And you've finished on top"). Leonard Bernstein conducted the National Symphony Orchestra in his composition If Ever Man Were Loved by Wife, which he dedicated to Rosalynn. James Dickey recited a new poem, describing Carter as a mythic hero drawing strength from a walk in the Plains countryside on a summer's night. Sample lines: "Lord, let me shake/ With purpose. Wild hope can always...
...high school teacher, Miss Julia Coleman, used to say, "We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles...
...Haverford became restless. President John Coleman, 55, felt that his Quaker school was violating the sect's egalitarian views by refusing to admit women. He also believed that Haverford, worried about its financial wellbeing, would do well to expand from 750 students to about 1,000 by recruiting females. Last November the Haverford faculty voted almost unanimously to admit women, and the student body backed them...
...action was clearly a defeat for Coleman, who resigned last week after ten years as Haverford's president. Four years ago, Coleman took a leave of absence and spent three months laboring as a garbage collector, dishwasher and ditchdigger. Now he says he will go to the state employment service and register for whatever is available...
City folk are hopeful that Carter will carry out his promises to do something about the staggering problems of blight and crime. Detroit Mayor Coleman Young foresees a new era of cooperation between the cities and the national Government. But others are skeptical about whether Carter can do much to reverse urban decline. Said Psychologist Wayne Oates of the University of Louisville: "The great poverty in America today is not for money. It's not for buildings. It's for ideas. People are tired of the old solutions...