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...sensing the impact of eloquence in the spoken word, understanding that there need be no conflict between morality and great power, acknowledging that people of wealth and position can help the nation, learning that litigating endlessly and sounding nice is not leadership and that preaching can often do more harm than good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY by HUGH SIDEY: Change in the Set of the Jaw | 11/12/1979 | See Source »

...company targets was especially ill-timed, since many of his energy measures seem at last to be moving through Congress. Said one Energy Department official: "I can't believe Carter's pulling this stuff. His rhetoric can't do any good, and it could do real harm." The House and Senate windfall profits tax bills will soon go to a conference committee; compromise legislation to form the Energy Mobilization Board is on the verge of being worked out; and the Senate now seems ready to approve the creation of the Energy Security Corporation, which is to spur...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Crude Assaults | 11/12/1979 | See Source »

...show like this is a painless way for singers to exercise their talents and for students to spend an evening. As long as Brel and its fellow revues can continue to draw audiences, there's no harm in them. But it's hardly unreasonable to demand more--more thought behind the singing, and more ambition in their choice of material...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: Black Sweaters, Black Humor | 11/8/1979 | See Source »

...when the occasion arises. "You can never tell when something will call it up." says Burr, adding that because it has no staff and pays no salaries, the Committee does not threaten to hurt anyone or anything. "Supposing it never meets," he asks, and adds quickly, "there's no harm done...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin, | Title: Yes, Virginia, There Is a Joint Policy Committee | 11/3/1979 | See Source »

...most downtrodden, the most miserable of Shikastans will watch the wind moving a plant, and smile; will plant a seed and watch it grow; will stand to watch the life of the clouds. Or lie pleasurably awake in the dark, hearing wind howl that cannot - not this time - harm him where he lies safe. This is where strength has always welled, irrepressibly, into every creature of Shikasta...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Visit to a Small Planet | 10/22/1979 | See Source »

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