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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Although various tallies differ, as of last week, Carter had apparently won 835 delegates to Kennedy's 411. Needed for nomination...
...this stage in the campaign it is fair to expect bolder and more explicit statements from the candidates on where they differ from the incumbent and how they would reshape U.S. foreign policy. After all, almost exactly four years before Reagan gave his Chicago speech, Candidate Jimmy Carter addressed the same audience and put the country on notice that if elected he would not let his Administration be guided by "balance of power politics," by excessive reliance on "military supremacy," or by "policies that strengthen dictators." He was committing himself to a dramatic departure from traditional Realpolitik. He stuck...
Although we differ about the suitability of Arnold Harberger as Director of the Harvard Institute for International Development (HIID), we do not question the sincerity of his opposition to the unconstitutional and repressive practices of the Pinochet regime, as expressed in a letter in the Wall Street Journal on December 10, 1976. This letter, responding to opposition to the award of a Nobel Prize to his colleague, Milton Friedman, stated...
This is harder to do in a piano trio than in, say, a string quartet, because the piano and strings are a mixed marriage. The piano always threatens to be louder; its attack, sustained tones and tempered pitch all differ from those of bowed instruments. So subtly do the Beaux Arts members adjust for these vagaries that they match the interplay of the score itself, passing phrases seamlessly from one to another, ebbing and flowing naturally with the dynamic pulse. Goethe described architecture as frozen music. A Beaux Arts performance is liquid architecture...
...Within the formula, a thousand variations flourish. Weathercasters differ about the measure of dignity the occasion calls for. Before Willard Scott moved to NBC's Today Show, he be came a Washington, D.C., fixture by giving his WRC-TV weathercast in kilts, Robin Hood costumes or George Washington getups. Audiences in Savannah have had a weather reporter who talked to a seagull; those in Cleveland have enjoyed one who blew hot licks on his trumpet between temperature recitations. Station KDBC-TV in El Paso has a Lhasa Apso named Puffy Little Cloud who gives a forecast by appearing...