Word: grounds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most successful moments in the presidency in recent years have come when the Chief Executives put together the human equation. They relished the struggles, the intrigue, the failures and triumphs of the men and women involved. Carter, in some ways the most human of Presidents, has taken the lonely ground above, dwelling with statistics, programs, philosophy. There are few zestful folks up there, and almost nobody who can get things done. Carter has only a handful of personal friends in the city, little interest in others beyond their official functions. The story of his presidency so far reads like...
...thought. This was the American conflict I had prayed someday to see: little guy in drag wheeling and kicking and crippling his clean-cut detractors, nylons ripping, wig flying off onto the ground, neck-ties shredded and doffed underfoot...
...played ping-pong after the chemical lunch. We were just getting off. The ground slipped lower and lower, until I was standing on ten-foot legs. The ball darted about leaving traces of its circular form, and when I went to hit the circular form, the ball slipped by me. I told my arms--commanded them--to hit the fucking ball, but they just laid numb by my side, dead. My legs went limp, and I quit the ping-pong game...
...time, and don't look back until you finished the trail and it's time to digest some food. Look over your shoulder too early and you'll see a great gray blur and you'll git too dizzy too quick and fall 300 feet to the icy ground...
...about your psychotic roommate who threatened your life--you're much better off approaching a middle-level bureaucrat on his own turf than shooting too high. These men tend to share a thorough competence in their fields, and a willingness to help students as long as they accept certain ground rules...