Word: pauls
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Paul Pierson, instructor in Government, believes one reason for the reversal in attitude is the shift in swing voters over the last 25 years. In 1964, Lyndon Johnson believed he needed the Black vote in order to win re-election. His War on Poverty represented, at least in part, an attempt to appeal to this crucial constituency...
...Paul Nitze has played all the positions in the game," Secretary of State George Shultz declared after the Moscow summit this spring. Indeed, the 81- year-old statesman has been involved in every aspect of nuclear-arms control, from his work with the U.S. Strategic Bombing Survey in 1945, when he went to Hiroshima to calibrate the rubble, to his service as senior arms- control adviser to Shultz and President Reagan. His extraordinary life forms the backbone for an analytic history of the nuclear age by Strobe Talbott, TIME's Washington bureau chief and author of two previous books...
After the Boston fire department rejected them because of poor exam scores in 1975, identical twins Philip and Paul Malone did not think of giving up. Back they went in 1977 with new applications and a new strategy: they declared that they were black. As such, the Malones were hired by the department, which was under pressure to take on more minority firemen. Under a court-ordered affirmative action plan, it no longer mattered that the brothers, with exam scores of 57% and 69%, fell far short of the passing grade of 82% required for whites...
...BRIGHT SHINING LIE by Neil Sheehan (Random House; $24.95). In a riveting portrait, John Paul Vann, a top U.S. adviser in Viet Nam, emerges as a man who embodied the contradictions of his ill-fated mission: a courageous do-gooder with a dark streak of amorality...
...greatest challenge to my coordination." Is Goodwin's awkwardness with women in pants a case of misplaced Oedipal urges? "Now the ghosts dissolve," he writes at the book's end. Ghosts? But then Goodwin seems to be preoccupied by the supernatural. He begins his book by quoting Paul Simon, "Hello darkness my old friend/I've come to talk with you again." To paraphrase Albert Brooks, I know people who talk to the darkness and they take plenty of medication...