Word: guts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...look at it from the personal side. Think of all those independently wealthy former Porcellian members, sitting around the Grenada Yacht Club. This season's topsiders remain untouched by saltwater, but they have to sit around the club, fearful they might take one in the gut if they merely head out in the $50,000 yachts. Yachts they certainly have a right to sail. There's fairness for rich people too, you know...
Must fires always race, then gut...
...view, the main thing to watch out for in picking a successor to Dean of the Faculty Henry Rosovsky was not picking another Henry Rosovsky. This is not to denigrate the outgoing dean, whose 11-year tenure will surely be looked upon as a success in dealing with the gut issues of the job--from straightening out the Faculty's finances to making strong Faculty appointments to revitalizing the undergraduate curriculum. But just as you don't "replace" Tom Landry as coach of the Dallas Cowboys, you don't replace someone like Rosovsky, who left his own idiosyncratic imprimatur...
...enough to reject his nomination. Yet Meese's role in many White House actions suggest an ideological rightist view of the law that goes beyond principled conservatism. Not only did Meese push tax exemptions for racist schools and Reagan's secrecy campaign, he also did all he could to gut the independence of the U.S. Civil Rights Commission, to cut off legal aid for the poor, and to go as far as to call the American Civil Liberates Union a "criminal's lobby...
...Hunches, gut feelings and a broad-brush understanding of issues and public opinion: a convincing case can be made that Reagan is thus a true leader and not simply a Government supermanager, that he has a political vision and not just an agenda of piecemeal programs. A President should be able to fine tune domestic policy and negotiate intricate treaties, and Reagan is not very good at either. There are also times when a President needs to paint with bold strokes, and Reagan, an intuitive master of that art, seems content to do what he does best. -By Kurt Andersen...