Word: fashioned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Jimmy Carter has conducted his presidency in a remarkably open fashion, but journalists have had little firsthand access to what happens beyond the White House press room. The President readily takes his policies to the people, but he has kept the inner workings of his Administration somewhat of a mystery. Last week, however, TIME Correspondent Stanley Cloud was allowed to observe the President in action for an entire day, both in the White House and in his private family residence. The result is the first intimate look at how Carter governs, offering an extraordinary insight into what is involved daily...
...world, so he set forth the general outlines of what was to be proposed. The people had a right to know what we were going to be talking about, and I must say I don't think the fact that the general outlines were set forward in that fashion had any negative or adverse effect on the discussions in any way whatsoever...
...CITING EXAMPLES of behavior patterns in the animal kingdom to suggest human beings must inevitably behave in a similar fashion misses one major point. We are not animals, we are human beings. We are not controlled completely by genetic factors. Our relationship to animals farther down on the evolutionary scale is interesting and informative, but it can't be taken too seriously. Genetically, the difference between a man and a chimpanzee is negligible, but culturally there is all the difference in the world...
...woman who has been shaped by her life experiences, and she has done hardly more or less in her own fashion than any American woman would do in a power struggle...
...this welter of conflicting interests-industrial, regional, ideological-Jimmy Carter and Jim Schlesinger must seek to fashion a national consensus. The stage is set for a full-scale political drama, most likely a cliffhanger. As a leading character in that drama, Schlesinger, for all his unwillingness to suffer those he considers fools, should have a reassuring effect. As he puffs on his briar and voices dispassionate opinions about the looming crisis, he exudes the old-fashioned values of patriotism and self-reliance. The energy crisis is making that turn of mind much needed for Americans of today-and tomorrow...