Word: lovingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Whether by oversight or design, the cost of the late call proved far greater than any possible anticipated benefit. It stirred up Jackson and his forces at a time when Dukakis should be preparing to preside over a Democratic love feast in Atlanta. It also seemed to undermine Dukakis' reputation for efficiency and suggest that before the campaign is over, he may have a rendezvous with his own arrogance. If selecting Bentsen, as Dukakis said, is the "first presidential act I will ever do," he had better quickly learn a more presidential way to handle such delicate tasks...
...individuals tried to appropriate for themselves, with tragic results. Even Plato came to realize that he had sealed his Socrates off from human feeling by making him so independent of others. Later, he tried to rescue his Socrates from the fault of perfection, allowing him a bit of (measured) love for others and dependence on them. Desire, he conceded, must drive the soul, but with a reined-in "craziness...
Dukakis, obviously, is no Hippolytus. He has given his hostage to the gods of love in Kitty. He can be moved by the plight of others; he can faint at the bloody reality of pain, be disarmed at the sight of real Athenians, waver when his friend misleads him about a campaign trick. But he does radiate to voters his own sense of being chosen. Sam Beer, Harvard's famous professor of government, who taught Dukakis at Swarthmore, says, "He was born to rule." He was always the Inevitable Michael. Things fall into place for him as by plan...
...there for the same reason. Academic matters were secondary. The social benefits of Harvard were a reason for Michael Dukakis not to go there. He believes deeply in meritocratic distinctions, which are blurred (if not reversed) by social influence. He went, instead, to the Quaker school Swarthmore, where his love for discipline would be rewarded. The school also gave him a smaller pool in which to establish (as he did) his dominance...
...bluegrass" sound, and share, with Crowell and Griffith, a high regard for the personalized regionalism of the Texas singer- songwriter Townes Van Zandt. Oslin sings with a voice that has as much Broadway in it as Biloxi, and Kieran Kane of the O'Kanes will talk about a hypnotic love song of theirs called All Because of You just like this: "The music sort of drifts off, gets real atonal and out of time, which is not normal in country music." Lovett, now he's not normal, with his spooky, funny tunes about ponies sailing oceans. But atonal, for Lord...