Word: cuomo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...last week's Democratic Convention, he and his staff left no detail, large or small, to chance. Yet no planner can manufacture drama and passion, and the Democrats' four-day spectacular in San Francisco surprised everybody with its abundance of both. From New York Governor Mario Cuomo's poignant evocation of the party's melting-pot past to Jesse Jackson's sweaty, moving, 51-minute tour de force to Geraldine Ferraro's winning performance in her unaccustomed role as history maker, the Democrats put on a sizzler of a show...
...remaining suspense centered on personalities and performance. In a convention of blazing oratory, how would the nation's first woman vice-presidential candidate stand up to her first big test? How would the reserved Mondale measure up against the forceful Cuomo and mercurial Jackson? The answers, when they came on Thursday, were pleasing to the Democratic Party...
...Francis of Assisi and Charles Darwin are rarely paired as ideological foes, but in his invigorating keynote address New York Governor Mario Cuomo served them up as symbols of the philosophical clash between the Democratic and Republican parties. While Ronald Reagan has questioned Darwin's theory of evolution, Cuomo accuses the President of embracing social Darwinism, "survival of the fittest," as part of his supply-side economic theories...
...contrast, Cuomo offered as the patron of his party's principles the man G.K. Chesterton called "the world's one quite sincere democrat," St. Francis of Assisi. The wealthy 13th century Italian, a man-about-town who was "born again" and founded the Franciscan order, is a Cuomo favorite. The Governor suggested that if St. Francis were alive today, his ascetic devotion to the poor, sick and oppressed might have led him to progressive politics and the ideals of the Democratic Party. Though Republicans may jeer at Cuomo's sudden secularization of a saint and dismiss...
...election, Keynote Speaker Mario Cuomo told thedele gates, "will answer the question of what kind of people we want to be." The Democrats knew what kind of people the Reaganites wanted to be. They portrayed Reagan's faith as a crass and self ish individualism. The Democratic way, as described in San Francisco, is a compassionate sharing, a mutuality, the nation seen as a family, each member precious and worthy of care...