Word: leadership
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...supertraditional "new" Anglicans consecrated bishops with only two consecrating bishops present when a 1600-year-old tradition requires three. Naughty, naughty fellows! And then to say that this kind of leadership is like Moses leading people out of Egypt and that "we will, in 50 years, be the only Episcopal Church in the United States." That's not naughty. That's just plain arrogance. And who are the losers in all this? The few conscientious Episcopalians who will be drawn to this body, thinking they are joining an Anglican Church, will be the big losers. And that...
...talented secretary but was unable to get her reclassified for a better job. The Civil Service Commission said that if she were reclassified, every other secretary in the agency would have to be reclassified. "There is almost no ability to promote able people from secretarial and clerical positions into leadership posts," he says. "Once people are on a track, you can't get them switched to another...
...Kennedy so devastatingly sum up his 1960 victory over Richard Nixon: "He's got no class." Franklin Roosevelt had class. Warren Harding did not. One of the maladies of the Carter Administration these days seems to be lack of class. Class is not always necessary for effective leadership; Lyndon Johnson sometimes demonstrated this. But if there is a dearth of achievement or other excitement, then a lack of class can be troublesome. The Carter Administration is drifting toward a description favored by the late Peter Lisagor of the Chicago Daily News, who used to say of the buffoons...
...appear at the political fund raiser in Atlanta set up by his deposed pal Bert Lance. Theodore H. White, an authority on Presidents and how they got there, has long contended that class is a critical part of politics. "Class is a matter of style in leadership," he says. "It is the magic that translates the language of the street into the language of history...
Consumed with their own internal political feuds, the French seemed almost oblivious to some of the dangerous consequences of a leftist victory that would bring not just a change in leadership and policies but a mutation in the nation's economic system (see box). In addition, it might produce a constitutional crisis involving Giscard and a Socialist Premier with conflicting ideological views. There was the possibility too that France might become the first major Western European nation in 30 years to install Communists as heads of government ministries, a prospect that could only embolden the left throughout Europe...