Word: leaders
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sure, her itinerary took her through territory that Carter had alienated. "In 1977 the Texas Farmworkers Union went to Washington, and Carter would not receive us," said Union Leader Antonio Orendain. "If next year weren't an election year, she never would have come." Said Dancy Buttery of Harlingen: "This is a last-ditch attempt to save face. Carter has had three years to make a difference. It's been a waste...
...desperately wanted to be, and Americans were blaming him now for the exhaustion of oilfields, the greed of Arabs and their own insatiability; they were blaming him for much more history than he should be held accountable for. Still, they were right to judge Carter harshly as a leader. In fact, he seems to have judged himself just as severely, as he suggested in his address to the nation after Camp David...
...President's frantic exertions since then have represented, among other things, an implicit confession of his own failures as a leader. He seems to have grasped the shortcomings of the Carter Administration as clearly as anyone, although the methods he has used to correct them have seemed at times peculiar and erratic...
Machiavelli said that a strong leader is needed at the birth of an organization or at a time of severe crisis. "In the U.S. now," says Josiah Bunting, "there are proportionately as many Hamiltons, Jeffersons and Franklins as in 1776. But there is nothing which calls their kinds of talents and energies automatically into the public sector. They have available chairs of classics at Brown University and directorships at Gulf Oil, what have you." A Southern Governor agrees: "It was probably much easier for David Rockefeller to be chairman of the Chase Manhattan Bank, a powerful position in which...
...conductor, Angel). Mussorgsky-Ravel: Pictures at an Exhibition. Stravinsky: The Firebird Suite, 1919 version (Philadelphia Orchestra, Riccardo Muti conductor, Angel). Now that Muti has been appointed to succeed Eugene Ormandy in 1980, listeners will turn to these, his first discs with the orchestra, to see what kind of new leader the Philadelphia has. They will find few conclusive answers. These are unexceptionable performances, clean and firm-if anything, too firm in the emphatic attack in the Beethoven and the clipped chords of the Mussorgsky and Stravinsky. What is missing, and it may be too early to expect...