Word: moral
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...until he graduated, hit theworking world, he joined the civil rights crusadewith a month-long legal stint in Mississippi. "Ihad an idea I ought to devote some time to publicservice and civil rights was the time to do it,"he says. "It was clear that this was likely thegreat moral struggle of my life...
Boston Bureau Chief Robert Ajemian, who reported and wrote the accompanying story on the development of Cuomo's intellectual and moral codes, has covered U.S. politics and politicians for the past 30 years. Still, he found Cuomo a compelling and challenging subject. "He shows you many different sides of himself," notes Ajemian, "but the fact is he has superb information control. It is the trial lawyer in him, no doubt. He instantly reads one's questions and the motives of one's questions...
...determined to rescue his wartime buddies from a Vietnamese prison camp. In each case, these heroic passions were sufficient to disarm--at least for the length of the film--the audience's humanistic objections to the means used to gain the desired ends. In other words, their moral fervor canceled out our moral qualms...
...politics and his persona are not a seamless garment. Cuomo is the poetic speaker who preaches the politics of inclusion yet distrusts all but a handful of people. He is the cerebral Roman Catholic who has modeled himself on St. Thomas More but can display a kind of conspicuous moral vanity. He is the immigrant's son who talks about mercy and generosity but can be meanspirited and vindictive. Yet contradictions aside, he is that rare figure who is able to inspire, to tap into the souls of voters...
...John Lindsay, who asked Cuomo to mediate a dispute in Forest Hills, where middle-class, mostly Jewish families were opposed to the construction of high-rise public housing for low-income, mostly black families. Many political observers saw the assignment as political suicide, but for Cuomo it was a moral conundrum come to life, a test of neighborhood values versus civil rights. What Cuomo learned was that coming up with a simple, Solomonic solution (he proposed halving the size of the project) was a great deal easier than getting both sides to accept it. The resolution he engineered...