Word: expert
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Editor's note -- This article was prepared by Matthias H. Klinke, last year's Harbus photographer and an expert German skier and equipment dealer. It is being reprinted with slight modifications because of its practical point of view and expert insight...
Radiated Force. There is a feeling that, as Harvard Historian Henry S. Hughes puts it, today's world has "little tolerance of greatness," and that in an era of computers, expert teams and government by consensus, the Churchillian kind of leadership may never again assert itself. But one of Churchill's greatest contemporaries, Konrad Adenauer, 89, does not share that fear. "What makes a statesman great?" he asks. "He needs first of all a clear conception of what is possible. Then he needs a clear conception of what he wants. Finally, a great leader must have the power...
...moderate" in the Labor Party spectrum, Stewart is a shy onetime schoolmaster who opposed Wilson's Labor leadership when Hugh Gaitskell died in 1963, later patched things up and served Wilson competently if obscurely as a housing expert in Labor's Shadow Cabinet. Since Stewart is so lacking in experience, Wilson obviously will have to make most foreign policy decisions himself for many months-a clearly depressing prospect for a man who has so many problems to handle on the domestic side...
...gardening, as in most other pursuits, the buyer gets pretty much what he pays for. Bargain hunting in seeds is especially risky because not even an expert can detect a bad seed. And, as the Apostle Paul reminded the Galatians: Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap...
...waking hours. If Lyndon Johnson succeeds in getting "every child the best education the nation can provide," the schools' responsibility will grow ever greater. And by and large the pattern works: in the mid-1960s, smarter, subtler and more sophisticated kids are pouring into and out of more expert, exacting and experimental schools...