Word: human
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...street named after you, you have to be a great human being as well as a great writer or artist...
...those early months of his Administration, his appreciation of the difference between the importance of such acts in the White House and the tolerant Southern view of human frailty afforded family and longtime friends was not fully developed. When his confidant Bert Lance got into trouble, Carter could not divorce himself from one he knew so well. Yet these lapses have been minor. Carter's basic integrity has remained intact...
When Vice Premier Deng Xiaoping (Teng Hsiao-p'ing) stepped up the Four Modernizations campaign in November, there were hopes that China's interest in American technology would extend to such Western values as human rights and intellectual freedom. No such luck. The Peking government is now trying to stamp out those pernicious notions in what seemed to be a reprise of the anti-intellectual purge in 1957 that crushed Chairman Mao's short-lived 'let a hundred flowers bloom" campaign...
...crackdown are wall posters that have appeared along Peking's "democracy wall" and in other major cities. The posters' bold demands have ranged from freedom of speech to sexual and romantic liberty. One poster pleaded with President Carter to "pay attention to the condition of human rights in China," another quoted from the Declaration of Independence...
Such scenes may not occur in Wall Street law firms, but they might make a movie, perhaps even a high-class, low-Nielsen TV show. It is a pity that Osborn did not find enough that is human about major league law firms to make his book something more. -Evan Thomas