Word: nationalizes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Andrew Young has been a useful buffer for the Democrats, enabling them to divert minority criticism. It is, however, a luxury we should no longer tolerate. We need professionals in Government, not babbling dolts who forget that they are the spokesmen for the nation...
...road, expertise and quantities of food and drink (the fare runs to beef, beans and Bud). The biggest and most tightly knit group is the Family Motor Coach Association (FMCA), which boasts 31,000 dues-paying members ($25 per annum per family) in 130 chapters across the nation. To qualify for membership, a motor-home owner must have a vehicle that is at least 18 ft. long, is "self-contained," meaning that it has an on-board sanitary system, galley and generator, and is built so that an adult can walk upright from driver's seat to back. Some...
...Jimmy Carter, the presidency must sometimes seem like an endless series of tests in which he is asked to prove that he is capable of leading the nation. In foreign policy particularly, the rambunctious 95th Congress is determined to judge every use of the authority that the Constitution grants him. Last week the Administration underwent two of these trials?on Turkey and Rhodesia?and while the results were mixed, Carter earned passing grades for leadership. But coming up this week: a new exam on foreign...
...wing radicals, probably from the universities. The investigation serves as an awakening and education for Rogas in the reality of power politics. Initially annoyed by the labor unions who seem to paralyze society with their incessant strikes, he gradually becomes aware of a far more serious threat to the nation as he begins to uncover a diabolical counter-revolutionary plot being planned and executed by the very leaders of the military-industrial-political complex. The final turning point occurs when he discovers that his own telephone is being tapped by those who fear he knows too much...
Jefferson never intended the Declaration to be a spiritual covenant. Wills writes, even though it is precisely that function that it has served. At Gettysburg, Lincoln's "new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal" romanticized the Declaration into a new myth of the chosen people. Actually, the delegates in Philadelphia did not see themselves as citizens of the New Jerusalem. They were mainly concerned with getting out the Declaration so that the colonies, independent, could urgently negotiate some foreign aid from France...