Word: fresh
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...little war a few years back someone chortled. Wrong war, allowed Ed. Next time we've got to pick one we can win. Laughter, and a little fresh coffee came around...
...Arvln Brown, 39, was fresh out of the Yale University School of Drama and just 24 in 1965 when he helped start the Long Wharf Theater in a converted warehouse in New Haven, Conn. Becoming artistic director in 1967, he set about making the Long Wharf one of the best and boldest regional theaters in the nation. Broadway dares not take many chances, but Brown does, and the result is a series of plays staged first in New Haven and then moving on to New York: The Changing Room, Streamers, The Shadow Box, The Gin Game and a revival...
...cultured, with the accumulated wisdom of 500 years. He can shrivel a potential rival with a burning glance, and back it up with action. No matter that he never sees the sunlight--the day is evil and harsh; it is for playing ball and going to school and applying fresh Clearasil after every class. Daylight means exposure. Whereas Dracula haunts the shadows, dissolves into a puff of smoke, a wolf or a bat. And he can hide his hard-on in his cape...
...associates easy access to the Oval Office. Soon after the election, Press Secretary Jody Powell announced that Carter thought "it was not in his interest to have a single chief of staff," a title that had special political significance because the memory of Nixon Aide H.R. Haldeman was so fresh in the public mind. But the loose arrangement, almost inevitably, caused confusion. Jordan, a shrewd but erratic and disorganized executive, will settle all but the most serious disputes. He will also screen from Carter all but the most important decisions and the most essential visitors. Said a White House official...
Perhaps the most unfortunate element of the housecleaning was that it provoked new doubts about Carter's understanding of the Federal Government and about his own leadership ability. He apparently intended the mass resignations as a dramatic symbol of a fresh start, as Nixon had done at the beginning of his second term. But Carter's coup de theatre looked more like amateur melodrama. He could have fired the subordinates who displeased him with less trauma and far better effect on his image as an executive. But he nonetheless sought everyone's resignation, apparently not anticipating how the act would...