Word: greats
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Overseas, the President's diplomacy was widely applauded. Exclaimed West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, a frequent critic of Carter: "Very good news. Well done. It's a great relief." A top British official said, "Carter deserves praise. The risks were great, but in the post-Iran situation, the risks of doing nothing were greater." Editorialized London's Daily Telegraph: "A peace treaty between [Egypt and Israel] will have a tremendous potential." The only completely sour notes were heard from some of Sadat's fellow Arab leaders and the Kremlin. Protested the Soviet Communist Party daily Pravda: "This is an abandonment...
...address to the Knesset, Carter displayed a new appreciation for graceful language and thought, deciding in those critical circumstances to go beyond himself ("Doubts are the stuff of great decisions, but so are dreams"). Men like Spinoza, whom he had rarely allowed entry into his down-home rhetoric, showed up ("Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice...
...swallows come back to Capistrano to signal the arrival of spring. Hinckley, Ohio, has something that may not be better but certainly is different: the annual return of the buzzards. The great birds like to roost in trees in the parks just outside town, and since 1885 the local citizens have made the best of the situation. Buzzard Day is March 15. On the following Sunday, the Chamber of Commerce celebrates by holding a breakfast of sausages and pancakes. Boy Scouts hawk buzzard T shirts and everybody tells birdbrained jokes...
...grandson of brandy makers from the town of Cognac, Monnet learned as a youth that masterworks are not accomplished by shortcuts. He deftly summed up this truth: "The great thing about making cognac is that it teaches you above everything else to waitman proposes, but time and God and the seasons have got to be on your side." He began his career as a globetrotting salesman for the family's distillery. Witnessing the chaos and waste of World War I convinced him of the need for international cooperation. By 1916 Monnet had become France's representative in London...
...discovered the self-benefits of helping others when it carried out the Marshall Plan with bipartisan fervor beginning in 1948. The U.S. was the first great power to use aid as a major instrument of foreign policy, and over the next two decades the nation was by far the biggest source of such assistance. There were many intricate reasons for America's subsequent disenchantment with foreign aid, but it became pronounced during the Viet Nam War. It was in 1968 that Congress radically slashed the proposed aid budget-by 40%, to a 21-year low of $1.75 billion. Since...