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...KIDS SAY "hi" back to Nadav Safran Who handled the CIA with such great elan. To you we proffer our young butts to kick, A sleighful of insults, and a conscience to prick. And what of Doug Hibbs, who's been kicked out of Eden On "medical leave" from Berlin to Sweden? Here's a new playground for you to find kicks; Have you considered a position with the New York Knicks? And to the entire Gov Department a graduate class Not filled with women all charging "harass!" To chairman Bob Putnam, six pounds of patience--He'll need...
...their weekend softball games in Burbank, Calif., as in their offices nearby, Tartikoff and his NBC crew radiate the highly competitive, slightly giddy elan of a Cinderella team, up from nowhere to challenge the league leader. They have every reason to feel peacocky. After running dead last in ) prime-time audience ratings for nine years, NBC since September '84 has scrambled to within a tenth of a rating point of the dominant network, CBS, in that arcane but widely accepted Nielsen yardstick of "television homes." For those who count heads rather than houses, NBC leads in the number of viewers...
...Ueberroth is an impresario embodying the renewed American spirit, that elan has taken up residence most notably among the generation of Americans called yuppies, the young urban professionals (aged roughly from the mid-20s to the late 30s) who are supplying much of the bright entrepreneurial energy driving the American economy. In the late '70s, Japan's imitative wizardry and its mysterious cultural-economic consensus were the international model to copy. Today the model, the source of envy around the world, is the freewheeling private initiative of the U.S. Much of the improvisational magic, especially in the booming high-tech...
American citizens need to be able to count on more than occasional fits of elan. Just like the rest of us, the Army has bad days--and while they were on a not streak in Grenada some day it might not all click. If it doesn't, we'll need more than buckets of trinkets to save the country...
...religious issue in American politics. When Edmund Muskie ran for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1972, his Catholicism was only a minor biographical detail. Kennedy presided over a change of political generations in America, and did it with brilliant style. He brought youth and idealism and accomplishment and elan and a sometimes boorish and clannish elitism to Washington. He refreshed the town with a conviction that the world could be changed, that the improvisational intelligence could do wonderful things. Such almost ruthless optimism had its sinister side, a moral complacency and dismissive arrogance that expressed itself when the American elan...