Word: leadership
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Could it be that the mediocre leadership of the most powerful person in the White House is caused by mediocre advice from the second most powerful person...
...Yellow Colonialism," "They Want to Secede" and "The Aggressor Rebuffed." He argues that China "can hardly be said to have any common cultural makeup" and virtually denies the existence of an official national dialect, Mandarin. He also asserts that the Chinese are not patriotic but only respond to individual leadership...
When he assumed spiritual leadership of the 20-million-member Ismaili sect 22 years ago, the Aga Khan was asked whether he intended to maintain his grandfather's famous racing stables. "I'm not much for sport," replied the prince, then 20. "I don't know what I'll do with the horses." Quickly enough the young heir developed a passionate interest in what he described as "a game of chess with nature"-the breeding of horses -and today he reigns supreme over the French horse-racing establishment. His sport has led him into a bitter...
...This country eats up elites for breakfast," he explains. "Yet it's necessary to preserve some kind of quality-quality of education, of birth, of leadership, whatever," An early and tough critic of the Carter Administration, Kraft is not universally popular, but is must reading in Washington. He uses a priceless list of elite sources to compile his thrice-weekly column (syndicated by Field Enterprises to 250 newspapers) and frequent magazine articles (usually for The New Yorker). Kraft writes from a comfortable study in his Georgetown home, but he travels so incessantly that his office is more often some...
Political scientists around the country say they will miss Karl Deutsch--as a person and as a scholar--when he begins to phase in his retirement next year. Deutsch's teaching, research, and leadership in professional organizations have left him with countless friends all over the globe, all of whom are eager to heap superlatives...