Word: letting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...singularly sour and pessimistic mood. Not only is the public naturally worried about the economy, energy and inflation, but it doubts things will improve much. The country is anxious to find strong leaders -the evidence is overwhelming-and the public has little faith that Jimmy Carter has the ability, let alone the programs, to solve the nation's problems. Clearly, the search has begun for a candidate who is seen to have the sort of leadership qualities that Carter is thought to lack...
...mere wagon master for corporate America. Says he: "Corporations can be monitored. They can be audited. But right now they're so scared of Government they don't dare stick their heads out. The idea that I would be a toady for Big Business, that I would let myself be exploited, that I would use Government to help corporations, is another of those myths. Hell, if I wanted to help myself, I'd denounce Big Business...
...let Colette rest...
...exceedingly remote from ordinary experience. "It is all very beautiful and magical here?a quality which cannot be described," Adams wrote to his friend the photographer Alfred Stieglitz from Painter Georgia O'Keeffe's ranch in New Mexico in 1937. "You have to live it and breathe it, let the sun bake it into you. The skies and land are so enormous, and the detail so precise and exquisite that wherever you are you are isolated in a glowing world between the macro-and the micro, where everything is sidewise under you and over you, and the clocks stopped long...
...Atlantic full of tales of shopping bargains and cheap travel. No longer. Today, most return with their wallets empty, their credit cards fully charged and their spirits shaken by how little the dollar now buys. Many wonder just how Europeans can afford to live at all in Western Europe, let alone so well...