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...again. No, I think as I look down on this place that is so small, so diminished, so unspecial, this is not Antioch: Antioch was days and nights of vivid action, Antioch was a paradigm of history on which at one time and another every kind of thinker and doer, every kind of greatness and smallness jostled together and shouldered and elbowed their way through all the lights and resonances and colors, all the smells and flavors and motion of endless variations of circumstance and event in a large and crowded arena. In a particular time people fought and lived...
...daunting new job, says Deane Hinton, the American Ambassador in El Salvador, will be "to wander around Central America and straighten everything out." Although most State Department officials bristled at the President's choice, saying they would have preferred a career diplomat, one defended Stone as a "doer" with the proper credentials: "A great big foot, a thick skin and a great big mouth...
...perhaps the final act by a leader West Germans had celebrated as der Macher (the Doer). Schmidt has played a key role in steering the nation to unprecedented prosperity and international respect during his 30 years in politics, eight of them as Chancellor. True to form, in one swift, decisive action Schmidt had moved to break West Germany's festering political crisis and shouldered the responsibility of bringing about the collapse of his own government. In so doing, he paved the way for his probable replacement by Christian Democratic Opposition Leader Helmut Kohl...
...collection traces a warm relationship, though Anna was aware that her mother did not always comprehend human weaknesses, and utterly failed to understand, for instance, why F.D.R., during World War II, insisted on having a 20-minute cocktail break before dinner. But there was no pomposity to this doer of what Lash, quoting George Eliot, calls "deeds of daring rectitude." Anna recalled that toward the end of her life, E.R. was offered $35,000 to make a margarine commercial for television. She translated the fee into CARE packages, decided she could save 6,000 lives, and made the commercial. Later...
...Stata, president of Analog Devices, a computer-parts maker. John Pignataro, vice president of data processing for the Sheraton hotel chain, agrees. "Tools like the personal computer will be most useful at lower levels. I think those who will really use the personal computer could be considered the doer, and the executive will be, as he always has been, the reviewer...