Word: mattered
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...this is indeed a different Kennedy. Critics have said with considerable truth that no matter what his accomplishments in the Senate, Ted has neither John Kennedy's sharp intelligence nor Robert Kennedy's passionate convictions. He carries with him the burden of Chappaquiddick, a reputation for womanizing and the problems of separation from his troubled wife. But his biggest liability may be his image of being a big-spending liberal at a time when many public opinion analysts believe Americans have become more conservative. Opponents attach considerable significance to a Boston...
...matter how optimistic Kennedy supporters are at the moment and how high the polls place him, Carter vs. Kennedy will be a long and bruising battle...
...other household products, and prices for those items jumped by 50%. During a stormy session of the Knesset, where the ruling Likud coalition now has a majority of only six seats, Begin survived a series of no-confidence motions. But observers were predicting that it was only a matter of time before the beleaguered Premier would be obliged to call new elections...
...anything but. During the summer, he disappeared into the library of the Mayo Clinic, where he had once been general counsel, to research the medical aspects of abortion. After he emerged, he wrote a broad opinion declaring that abortion, at least in the first trimester, was a matter for a woman and her doctor, not the state, to decide. That was hardly the reasoning Burger had hoped for. The Chief eventually added a cryptic concurring opinion arguing that the court's decision did not sanction ''abortion on demand''-though that was precisely what Blackmun meant...
...Webern, one of the great innovators of the 20th century, this was a spiritual matter. In every vista he saw a creative idea logically developed. The merest wild flower reminded him of Goethe's ''primeval plant,'' symbol of the unity of all organic life. Most important, his moun tain treks re-enacted his artistic aspirations. More than any composer before or since, Webern worked on the timberline between sound and silence. His austere, rigorously condensed pieces seem to hover in a clear, rarefied ether of their own, like clusters of ice crystals on the point...