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Paul Lyet (pronounced lee-ay) is a plain-spoken fellow, but when he talks to the troops about tomorrow's opportunities he takes on the fervor, if not the glamour, of George C. Scott playing Patton. Sperry expects the 1980s to be an era of tremendous growth, nourished by technology just beginning to emerge from the labs. In five years, computers will be at least twice as fast and capacious as they are today; new airline navigation projects will make travel much safer. Most important, says Lyet, there is large opportunity, fed by need, for U.S. companies to expand...
Before he was an architect, Johnson became the director of the architecture department of Manhattan's fledgling Museum of Modern Art. In 1936 he scandalized his colleagues by resigning from his post and, imbued with fervor for Nazi Germany, trying to start a splinter fascist party in America. This failed, and in 1940 Johnson entered architecture school. He had backed into the profession as a critic, but in the process he had helped bring Mies van der Rohe to America and fought bravely to shift avant-garde taste in the direction of the same Utopian machine culture he would...
...Jimmy Carter's advisers insists that there is a new and different fervor now in the presidential eye when he talks about inflation. "He will listen to you on almost any subject," this man says, "but on inflation he will talk back." The special spark may have been struck, believes this Carter friend, on a spring morning when Speaker Tip O'Neill rumbled in to break fast and snorted, "All the people in my district want to talk about is prices. We are going to have to do something...
...their faith, to feel it is weak, for they see that their vision of a "city on a hill," a utopia, a Great Society, has failed. Americans are by history failed absolutists: but if they are given a second chance at some absolute spiritual system, they grasp it with fervor...
...speech was unprecedented for Iran's proud autocrat. It reminded some history-conscious observers of the last days of Imperial Russia's Czar Nicholas II in 1917, or France's King Louis XVI trying to stem the revolutionary fervor that was eventually to sweep him from his throne in 1792. In a televised address to his rebellious country, the Shah announced that he was placing strife-and strike-torn Iran under temporary military rule. Simultaneously, however, he pledged to meet virtually all the demands of his regime's opposition?all, that is, except for his own abdication from the Peacock...