Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...than Rosalynn Carter is, publicly crusading for her own causes and making her own name. Lady Bird Johnson was also much involved in her husband's political life. "She was a partner," says Liz Carpenter. "Like Mrs. Carter, she was a sounding board, there to give the 'level view...
...type to compromise on important principles. The reports of his political demise were premature. Ten years after he stood up to Davis, Landrieu built a coalition of black and upper-middle-class white voters and was elected mayor of his native New Orleans. He appointed blacks to high-level city jobs and, up until his very last days in office, continued to pressure the city's business elite tobe more responsive to the black community and to the area's economic and social needs...
...judgment was unfair, in one sense. The problem of leadership in the U.S. goes far beyond the Oval Office, stultifying progress at every level of American society. But Carter was the man at the top, where he had so 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...
...same time, the general level of critical intelligence and intense watchfulness means that leaders cannot creatively manipulate circumstances as easily, either for good or ill, as they did in the past. A political operator of genius, like Lyndon Johnson, would sink into depressed impotence under such restraints?as at last Johnson...
...almost unbelievable pain inflicted on a community, and a boy, under German occupation. By writing of the war from an individual's point-of-view, Haviaras makes its terror more tangible. Devastation is incomprehensible on a large scale; to have emotional impact, it must be brought down to the level of one person. And because he writes of a place where the identity of the individual is bound up in that of the community, by writing of the individual's anguish he also conveys the anguish of the community. By bringing a poet's perception to a child's unemcumbered...