Word: grasse
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Smithsonian museums, the National Theater, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden - all intelligently run, all national showpieces. Nor is the feeling of these places monumental and distant. One of the white blades of the National Gallery's East Building is tinged brown about three feet up from the grass, where kids could not resist grasping the stone...
Neustadt added that the Republican surge this year is at least partially a result of careful GOP grass roots planning that began in the late 1960s and was interrupted by Watergate. "This trend of Republican strength is only resurfacing now," Neustadt said
Because New Hampshire voters are accustomed to "sitting down at the kitchen table" with presidential candidates, the "other"--non-presidential--contenders must do extensive grass roots campaigning. That suits Durkin just fine. "For the last five days, he's been up at 6 a.m. to visit factories. Hand-to-hand, door-to-door, that's the senator's style," his press secretary says...
...Bush's biggest pluses is his personal style and manner. A graduate of Andover and Yale who often wears three-piece suits and has been described as a "gentlemanly" campaigner, Bush embodies to many the Eastern Republican establishment--a sector of the electorate to which Reagan's grass-roots style has very little appeal...
...organization behind it had become primarily the business of Roman Catholics and the independent Black clergy, Rodman said. "The energy for it came from the Catholic Clergy in Charlestown. Decision making around the Covenant became exclusive--although it didn't start out to be," he said, adding that the grass-roots element was largely left out. "From the very beginning communications broke down," said Rodman, who was in the unusual position as a Black minister in a predominantly white, established church. Rodman indicated that the presence of Jewish and Islamic participants in the Covenant service was like his own participation...