Word: doering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Cases vary widely. State and local officials are being investigated and indicted in unprecedented numbers. The record of a durable doer like New York's Robert Moses is debunked. The awesome images of Nelson Rockefeller and Henry Kissinger have been leaked on with acid. The public's approval of Presidents, at least as measured by opinion polls, fluctuates wildly...
Kearns says Johnson's decision to enter politics was a conscious attempt to reconcile the demands of both parents: he could be a doer for his father and "talk big ideas" for his mother. Politics, in the Kearns view, became not only the search for power and the channel for conflicts but a way to earn love according to his mother's rules. "His entire self-esteem," she says, "rested on being admired." L.B.J. talked incessantly with Kearns of wanting to be loved. Putting his last hopes in history, he told her, "If the American people...
...Kennedy would outflank him on the right, arguing that Johnson had abandoned President Kennedy's commitment to South Viet Nam. Kearns suggests that Johnson may have had a special horror of Bobby as a man who met the same conflicting parental demands (be a thinker, be a doer) in a way he never could...
...generation has taken over in Bonn. Bouncing out of his Rhineside bungalow early each morning, he likes to blast a referee's whistle as he starts across the lawn to the chancellery. The message to his aides: get things moving. To Germans, he is known as a Macher (doer). He has cut out the rambling presentations from ministers that Brandt allowed and lectured them on his credo: "There will always be problems. They are to be solved, and we will solve them...
Erdman, who grew up in the Midwest, exudes a boyish enthusiasm. He seems to be an irrepressible doer. Be fore leaving jail, he had not only writ ten the novel but revamped the prison library system and persuaded the war den to paint the cells in cheerful col ors. His own accommodations were not unpleasant. He had television, radio, all the books he wanted - and a typewriter...