Word: enough
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After lunch there is the ritual known as the walk. If the hickory, pine and bobolinks that grace the center's 15 acres are not enough, there is what may be termed the reality walk. A peripatetic scholar will stroll to the end of the center's private road and scuff pebbles along Alexander Drive while authentic truck drivers roar past. Then, with perspective restored and the latest Alice-Lucy masterpiece well on the road to digestion, it's back to the study. Or to a seminar. There are four ongoing seminars meeting this year, rather forbiddingly...
...life, he said, is not worth living. Meanwhile, back at the center, the talk flows on. For now, at least, the dialogue is sufficiently rich in wit, affection and charm to prove that the examined life is well worth living. That, in a year like 1979, should be justification enough...
Flanked by his photogenic family as he made his announcement at Washington's National Press Club, Bush took a poke at President Carter: "We have learned that good intentions are not enough in a President. To be effective, leadership in the 1980s must be based on a politics of substance, not symbols; of reason, not bombast; of frankness, not false promise." He called for the usual Republican objectives: reduced federal spending, a balanced budget, increased military strength, a tougher foreign policy...
...Texas in 1948, where he later helped found and run the Zapata Petroleum Corp. Bush promised last week to reveal his income taxes for the past five years and his net worth "to dispel the notion that I am a rich Texas something-or-other." He is rich enough. Bush sold his oil-industry holdings in 1966 when he was first elected to Congress, but his net worth is estimated at upwards of $1.3 million...
Puffing on a Gold Label cigar, Talmadge closely followed the first week's action and then summed it up accurately enough by declaring: "They haven't learned anything" that was not agreed upon by him and the committee in advance. The pace may pick up for Talmadge as the hearings continue and he faces the testimony of Minchew and, possibly, that of his ex-wife Betty...