Word: efforts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...come up from Georgia the night before, had brought part of an essay on peace by the Rev. Walker L. Knight of Atlanta. The President was so taken with the thoughts that he melded them into his speech ("Peace, like war, is waged"), and then touched off a desperate effort to track down the Rev. Mr. Knight to get his approval. The pastor was delighted. Carter will never be a stirring orator, but the spiritual nature of the hour and his obvious sincerity made up the difference...
...times resembled a triumph of dishevelment. William McKinley, says Edmund Morris in The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, seemed the perfect picture of a President - but only "from the neck up." McKinley also owned stumpy legs, pulpy hands and a commanding gaze that was mobilized, says Morris, by a tormented effort "to concentrate a sluggish, wandering mind...
...triumph in the nightcap was without question the Crimson's finest all-around diamond effort since the squad returned North last Sunday. Harvard played errorless baseball for the first time in four games and got a tremendous defensive effort from the infield of Rick Pearce, Burke St. John, Bobby Kelley, and Mark Bingham...
They said of Joseph Levenson when he died, "He showed how a lifetime of effort might yield really nourishing answers, but transcending his speciality is what he contributed to humanistic knowledge generally." John K. Fairbank, Higginson Professor of History Emeritus, Levenson's Harvard undergraduate tutor and graduate advisor, rendered final judgdment: "Joe's was no ordinary career--its record is that of genius at work...
...losing? Why has so little changed? Auletta's depressing answer cites the development of a "local equivalent of a military/industrial complex--what one might call a public/profit complex," an assortment of power brokers from the unions, the banks, the local, state and federal government. They have united in the effort to stave off bankruptcy, but in so doing, "the same absence of opposition, of rigorous checks and balances, which helped cause the fiscal crisis now rendered it nearly impossible to cure." The faces and even the titles of the protagonists have changed, but the public, or even its representative, does...