Word: healing
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...some, the high point was Jimmy Carter's unexpected thank-you to Gerald Ford "for all he has done to heal our land." For others, it was Carter's unprecedented stroll down Pennsylvania Avenue from the Capitol to the White House after he was sworn in. But for many, the most memorable-and symbolic-moment came when a black choir sang the Battle Hymn of the Republic in honor of a Southern President...
...myself and for our nation, I want to thank my predecessor for all he has done to heal our land. In this outward and physical ceremony we attest once again to the inner and spiritual strength of our nation...
...destroyed forever the hopes of Alabama's George Wallace of rising to national power?a possibility already dimmed by the bullet of a would-be assassin. By showing that a nonracist Southerner could win a major party nomination, Carter gave new pride to his region and went far to heal ancient wounds...
...disillusioned by the radical politics in the '60s, withdrew into the various styles of the "personal growth" movement. Reich's version is a kind of Peter Pantheism in which he offers his own autobiography as a guide to a never-never land. Natural beauty and loving friends heal the troubled soul there, and such things as lust, jealousy, guilt and evil hardly seem to exist...
...pills, perhaps provided the most perceptive analysis: while Berman's book is "outrageously provocative" and sometimes "pure Paul Bunyan," there is behind the barrage a serious intent-not to destroy U.S. medicine but to cure its flaws. In other words, Berman is repeating that most ancient admonition: physician, heal thyself...