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...other than a loss of faith in government may also be at work: a competitive culture, high anxiety about the economy and conflicting reports on which shortages are long-term or temporary. Says Sociologist Jackie Boles of Georgia State University: "At times like this we need strong leadership to jolt people out of this competitive behavior. Unfortunately, our leadership has said, 'Yes, we have an energy shortage,' and 'No, we don't have an energy shortage.' People are operating in a vacuum of leadership." Adds Brenner: "The public will try to get the facts themselves...
...Indoor Track and Tennis Building (ITT) was next on the agenda and equally impressive. I hoped that the committee would meet track mentor Bill McCurdy and imagined how he would jolt them with one of his always refreshing comments. "Hey, I'm Irish, so just keep the green flowing in my direction," he might have said...
Much of the American grief in Viet Nam was played out in the national imagination by way of movies and television. If the grunts on search-and-destroy in the Central Highlands sometimes kept themselves going with a jolt of John Wayne from The Sands of two Jima, the people at home took their war each night live in their living rooms, mainlined by television directly into the bloodstream. Viet Nam was so intimately recorded that it became almost unendurably real-yet also impossibly remote, 9,000 miles away, a dark hallucination. And along with the war on the tube...
...desire for mindless excitement this year," says Gene Stavis, director of Manhattan's American Cinemathèque. "Whether it's laughter or screams, anything that gets the adrenaline going gets people into the theater. We are in an era when people are looking for a jolt...
...proving to be a busy month. After his talks with Dobrynin last week, Vance flew to London, where he addressed the Royal Institute of International Affairs on what he called "the emerging SALT II agreement." This week he is visiting Egypt and Israel in a last-minute attempt to jolt their stalled peace talks back into motion. He will report to the President in Washington, then head for his meeting with Gromyko in Geneva before returning again to the U.S. capital...