Word: grasps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...knows Stan Turner doubts that the driving, fiercely ambitious admiral will make the most of his new job. He is one of the armed services' new breed of activist intellectuals who pride themselves on their grasp of nonmilitary matters: politics, economics, psychology. Born in Highland Park, Ill., a Chicago suburb, Turner decided on a naval career instead of joining his father in real estate. After graduating 25th in his class at Annapolis (Jimmy Carter finished 59th out of 820 in the same class of'46), he studied at Oxford on a Rhodes scholarship. He served on a destroyer during...
...messages to Congress and in his budget, Jimmy Carter has just set forth his economic policy for 1978. He hopes that it will prove to the country that his grasp of fiscal reality is firmer than it sometimes appears. Says Senior Editor George Church, who wrote this week's cover story: "Carter's severe problem is that he has convinced most of the business community that he doesn't know what he's doing...
...businessmen had time to digest last week?indicates that Carter made a small start toward soothing business anxiety but has a very long way to go. Said John Wilson, an economist at California's Bank of America, the nation's largest: "I think he demonstrated he has a good grasp of short-term and long-term economic problems, and he presented a balanced package." J. Sidney Webb, executive vice president of TRW Electronics in Los Angeles, thought Carter sounded "more like a conservative Republican than a conservative Democrat. I'm not sure he can do all the things he says...
...that he reproduced it unconsciously. They could not, however, approach the beautiful, sure clarity with which Rem brandt set down, in a few streaks and slashes of bistre, a windmill facing the estuary from an old bulwark of Amsterdam. Nor could they rival the depth of Rembrandt's grasp of gesture, expression and character. A drawing like Saskia 's Lying-in Room evokes, in the space between the shadowed head of Rembrandt's pregnant wife and the sewing hands of her nurse, a domestic silence so intense that one can almost hear the tick of cooling embers...
...order had just the man for this Midas direct-mail touch-the Rev. Guide J. Carcich. Trieste-born, he had come to the U.S. as an immigrant and was a parish priest in Baltimore for seven years. He had a taste for worldly things, a born manager's grasp of commerce and a literary flair. IN THE HEART OF DARKNESS, another Carcich flyer began, MESSENGERS OF HOPE. His success was astounding-almost like the miracle of the loaves and fishes...