Word: partings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...think the Supreme Court ruling that pretrial hearings may be held in secret [July 16] is not only horrendous, but frightening. Stripping the press of power is like tearing away a part of our country as well as our democracy...
Donovan and the President agreed on three primary points: Donovan would report directly to the President (among White House staffers, only National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski and Chief of Staff Hamilton Jordan now have that access); he would take no part in Carter's re-election campaign; and he would not be an image shaper for the President. Donovan said he had been "very impressed by the sincerity with which the President described his need and the country's need for the job. It was difficult to resist such an appeal put on the grounds of public service...
...pride in America's past and, despite present problems, his optimism about the future. "One secret of America's strength is that two strains-rebelliousness and willingness to accept orders-run strongly through our national life," he says. "From the tension between these tendencies I think part of the American dynamism is created." He has contended that "our failure to achieve civilized race relations is America's most serious social weakness"; he has described the "decline of American productivity" as one of the most debilitating economic problems; and he has stressed that U.S.-Soviet relations remain "quite...
...TIME correspondents and editors began gathering suggestions from Congressmen, religious leaders, educators, politicians and prominent citizens in every part of the nation. TIME tried especially to find leaders on the local and regional levels. As North Carolina Governor James B. Hunt remarked: "I think we've got the attitude in this country that Government has to do everything for people. My whole approach is 'Let's try to do it for ourselves on the local level.' " The magazine sought figures of integrity who have exerted a significant social or civic impact, regardless of politics or ideology. Boston College President...
...character can churn up these kinds of emotions and survive. Dracula must die at the end of his movies, and he's got to die bloody, so it hurts. Part of us dies with him--loving it--and the other part drives in the stake and loves it more, sending Dracula back where he came from, to hell, to the bubbling pits of our own souls...