Word: off-the-cuff
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Joseph Califano, Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, giving an off-the-cuff modest appraisal of Jimmy Carter: "I think we are much better off with him as President than we would have been with the Republican opponent...
Perhaps that is why the excerpts of Nixon's memoirs are so thoroughly and predictably disappointing. In a dull, clipped prose more reminiscent of Jerry Ford speaking off-the-cuff than his own roiling Pat Buchanan-William Safire speeches or football-fuck-em vernacular, nothing of the real Nixon emerges. The weird intensity, the paranoid desperation of the man who believed he always knew the right answer, and alone could act upon it, is gone. Instead, we are given a shallow, simplistic portrait of events, with the personality of the Great Vindictor sucked clean out of them. By contrast...
...President's three presentations and their impact on people as diverse as Senator Robert Byrd and Philadelphia Personnel Manager June Rosato. It is by Senior Writer Ed Magnuson, who has written 67 TIME covers. Said he after reading the extensive files from our correspondents: "All those off-the-cuff views that most people will not rise to a crisis unless they feel immediately threatened seem to be wrong. Despite arguments over his program, it is clear that Carter has a better feeling for the people than many reporters and politicians I know...
...more politically neutral substitute: "secure frontiers." Carter rather gingerly used both concepts and described the difference between them as "just semantics." Says TIME Diplomatic Correspondent Strobe Talbott, assessing Carter's foreign policy style: "Unprecedentedly public, yes. Occasionally feckless, yes. Controversial and provocative, to be sure. But off-the-cuff or casual, never...
...lyrics are mostly in Portuguese, but his songs, with their optimism and off-the-cuff spirit, transcend language barriers. There is an only-just-bounded energy to this music, a warmth that is a welcome change from dark northern days. Close your eyes and you could almost be 5000 miles away...