Word: lostness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Carter's declared purpose was to renew his contact with the American people, to discover their anxieties and to reassure them of the concern of their chosen leaders. "There has been a lost sense of trust," he told aides, "a loss of confidence in the future." Part of that concern, he inevitably learned, involved the President himself. For some time past, but more sharply this summer, the U.S. has been slipping into a morass of interrelated problems. One is the energy crisis, marked by its gas lines and soaring prices. One is the painful combination of inflation and economic stagnation...
Carter himself told several guests that he felt he had lost the touch with the country that he had developed during the 1976 campaign, and longed to get it back. He will change the way he conducts the presidency, he said. He will spend less time behind his desk poring over briefing papers, more traveling around the nation meeting people. He mused that he might try some other tactics, perhaps making a regular practice of "having seven or eight Governors in to spend the night with me at the White House and just talk over how we can cooperate...
Basketball Coach Bobby Knight has long been famed for both his temper tantrums and his impressive won-lost record at Indiana University. At the Pan American games in San Juan last week, he embellished his reputation in both areas. He was coaching the U.S. basketball team in a practice session when the Puerto Rican policeman on duty allowed the Brazilian women's team into the gym before he was supposed to by Knight's account...
...Celebration of One Thousand Years of British Gardening," includes architectural plans of medieval and Tudor landscapes, assorted tools of the trade (including the first mechanical lawnmower, a green-and-red contraption patented in 1830), and paintings that preserve the image of estates long since lost to the taxman and the decline of great fortunes. Many of Britain's fine gardens still flourish, however, thanks largely to the conservation efforts of the National Trust, a volunteer organization that administers 100 gardens and some 200 historic buildings. This year, using funds collected from its 816,000 members, from legacies and from...
...just be hanging around waiting to go to the dentist or doctor or undertaker," he said. Toward the end, the proud old man would shuffle unsteadily to the podium. But then, invigorated by the music, he seemed to shed 20 years. When Fiedler died last week, Boston lost one of its best-known monuments...