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...policy is Carter, for good or ill. He is reluctant to delegate authority and judges every issue on the merits of the case presented to him." And the President does tend to consider issues one by one. A senior Administration official asserts: "Although he's a very fast learner, he doesn't move easily from one concept to another. You can open one subject, and he'll quickly have it mastered. Then he'll master a second one. But he often doesn't see the relationship between one and another, despite a really first-class...
...adult education limited to the classroom, as one new guide to the field points out. The Lifelong Learner, by Ronald Gross, an adjunct associate professor at N.Y.U., chronicles a wealth of public library programs and television courses. And there is always, he adds, the old-fashioned correspondence course. One newfangled participant: Patty Hearst, who while appealing her bank robbery conviction is whiling away the hours with home-study courses...
...most disturbing slips from the true faith have been concessions to the privileged that gladden hearts in Wall Street and business, constituencies that true populists can never hope to win. Given more time and experience, he may compensate for those defections. He does not seem to be a slow learner...
Despite the reservations about Carter's style, doubts about his knowledge of international questions-long regarded as his weakest suit-are fast fading. From those who have already personally dealt with the President, the verdict is unanimous: Carter has been well briefed, is a fast learner and has enough self-confidence to admit when he has not yet studied an issue sufficiently to make up his mind. After his meeting with Carter earlier this month, British Prime Minister James Callaghan returned to London and said that he had never before met a statesman who spoke with such openness. Above...
Becoming restless, Howard soon headed for Hollywood, where he used the earnings from Toolco, as the company became known, to teach himself the art of film making. He was such a fast learner that within two years he won an Oscar for a silent comedy and went on to produce Hell's Angels, an epic of World War I aerial combat. For the leading lady, he discovered Jean Harlow, whose wondrously sculpted shape, platinum hair, plus a certain charming vulgarity, gave her a unique place in the American libido...