Word: fitly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Carter found Navy life less than fulfilling. His acceptance into the submarine program changed all that. In the first place, he loved the macho tradition of life aboard subs. He has always enjoyed the company of more outgoing, hard-living, salty-tongued men. Most of his closest advisers today fit that description, as did many of the men with whom he served on submarines. The spartan life aboard a submarine-the absence of many diversions-also appealed to Carter's love of work and problem solving in splendid isolation...
Terrill's case raises the question of the multi-dimensional scholar, the intellectual who constantly follows new interests and spreads into more than one field. For Harvard, at least, there seems to be no place for a curious mind of this sort, which cannot easily fit into one of the University's well-defined fiefdoms...
...with their bossist politics and over-blown romantic intriques, provide the first, and the best, showcase for the talents of Lina Wertmuller. Her fluky--sometimes maudlin, sometimes racy--rhythm and pacing, the continual yak-yakking of her argumentative protagonists, even her crude flights of comical fancy all seem to fit in these cities. Here adults must act fast and foolishly in order to sustain the belief that their fierce chauvinism, mafioso loyalty and marital code of honor still mean anything in their industrialized, bureaucratized world...
Carter does not fit many Southern stereotypes. He is not a hard drinker, poker player, or profane and garrulous see-gar-chomping raconteur. His humor is low key, his New South approach to voters is cooler than the delivery of the hot stump speechifiers of another era. Carter tells crowds: "When I'm in the White House, you'll have a friend there." In contrast, a prewar Georgia Governor and populist, gallus-snappin' Eugene Talmadge, was wont to tell his crowds: "Come see me at the mansion after I'm elected...
...frame of mind based on the premise that life is nothing to get serious about. A glance at the brothers Carter tells a lot. There is some confusion about why Billy Carter seems in many respects the quintessential good ole boy, while Brother Jimmy couldn't even fit into the more polished subspecies of conscious good ole boys who abound in small-town country clubs. Billy, amiable, full of jokes, his REDNECK POWER T shirt straining unsuccessfully to cover the paunch, swigs a beer, carefree on a Sunday morning, as Jimmy Carter, introspective, hard driving, teaches Sunday school. Jimmy...