Word: master
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...which a Cabinet resignation signals the overthrow of a government, large numbers of Europeans even wondered whether the Carter Administration had fallen. As the week progressed, they became increasingly critical of the President. "He always acts too late and thus appears to be the victim rather than the master of events," summed up Les Edgar, a managing director of London's Sharps, Pixley & Co., bullion brokers...
...mean two new bureaucracies and $141 billion more federal spending. And as the election approaches, Carter may be tempted to reach for even more Big Government solutions to prove his effectiveness and leadership ability. Said a Cabinet member: "The President has difficulty seeing the interrelationships of problems. He will master one subject superbly and then go on to the next. But he does not see the relationship between the two." Says another Cabinet Secretary: "Our basic economic problem has been that no one has been in charge...
...trees. Other amateur gardeners stop by to ask for cuttings and to trade notes on lush hybrid ivy. Such a bower well fulfills that dream of true Englishmen expressed in 1664 by Poet Abraham Cowley: "I never had any other desire so strong ... as that I might be master at last of a small house and a large garden...
...fact, Kissinger was quite apologetic about the coincidence of the trips. Said he: "It is my fate to wait for months to return in order to avoid complications, and with my enviable sense of timing to arrive at the same time as my old friend Strauss." The old master of shuttle diplomacy also had ready praise for the novice. "You're the right man for the job," he told Strauss, "and you're doing beautifully...
...Ready for Prime Time Players, Murray had broken into the show by serving as unofficial second banana to the stars, John Belushi, Dan Ackroyd and Gilda Radner. When he finally seized centerstage, he stopped being a straight man and became a live -or maybe frazzled-wire. Murray is a master of comic insincerity. He speaks in italics and tries to raise the put-on into an art form. His routine resembles Steve Martin's, with a crucial difference. Where Martin is slick and cold, Murray is disheveled and vulnerable. One feels that Murray's manic behavior...