Word: orderings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Carter was represented on the Washington Hilton podium by Powell, who speaks for the President daily to much the same audience for considerably less than $35 a head. (Surely a fresher face was in order, some correspondents may have felt.) In his monologue, drafted by Presidential Gagsmith Jerry Doolittle, Powell quickly took the offensive. "President Carter wanted very much to be here tonight," he began. "After all, he seldom has the occasion to dine with an institution held in lower esteem than ..." He did not finish the sentence, but went on: "He, of course, wanted me to express his regrets...
...Hannah's penchant for using violence to get himself out of stories does not always work. The narrator of Coming Close to Donna bashes a woman's head with a tombstone. How come? Because he gives her what she wants. The end. Random calamities may be the order of the day in real life, but that is precisely why truth is stranger than fiction. Art demands more. Hannah provides it often enough. He does not revel in the macabre: he uses it to create sudden emptiness, black holes that demand contemplation. Why, while a housewife is napping...
...elected and re-elected largely because he ran against Viet Nam and radicalism. So, with the distorting convulsion of Viet Nam, the fever of the counterculture and the huge distraction of Watergate out of the way, Carter suddenly inherited all the unsolved, postponed or sidetracked problems about how to order our society, accompanied by the serious economic problems-huge energy costs, increasing social demands, slowed growth-that no industrial society has yet been able to solve. It was widely thought that the absence of acute crises would benefit him. The opposite happened, because he and the country...
...things happened. First, events changed the agenda: the predominant subjects became "We can say, then, that he's Viet Nam, law and order, race, radicalism. Second, largely hidden by those more dramatic issues, serious doubts developed about whether the country could indefinitely afford the New Deal approach and whether it was working. In short, the majority assumptions-the faith and strategy-of decades were severely damaged if not destroyed...
...difficulty began three weeks ago, when the new black co-minister of justice and law-and-order, Lawyer Byron Hove, 38, gave an interview. Hove is a colleague of Bishop Abel Muzorewa's, the most influential black member of the council, who had brought him home from London to serve in the new government. Noting that there were few blacks in the higher ranks of the present police force, let alone in the judiciary, Hove declared: "I don't think there is a single African in the upper echelons of my ministry." The reason, he said, was that...