Word: performancy
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...which may have no relation to reality, the don't-confuse-me-with-facts kind of people." Though he has plenty of that quality described as charisma, he downgrades it. "We're getting away from charismatic politicians, which is a good thing, because they don't perform." When pressed, he refers to himself as a "pragmatist," but that is a bland description for the multitude of political drives that make up Nelson Rockefeller. He is the political equivalent of a natural force...
...support for Baird. She refused, because "it felt somehow like a bribe." Boston's archbishop, Humberto Cardinal Medeiros, told a TV newsman that no priest in the archdiocese would baptize the child unless Mrs. Morreale backed down. Baird countered with a dramatic nationwide call for a volunteer to perform the baptism...
...like an electronic Hyde Park speaker's corner," said Shirley Simmons, a member of an off-off-Broadway repertory company planning to perform on public access. Indeed it is. Anyone can walk through the cablecaster's door, sign up for an available time slot, and go on the air (or, more precisely, through the wire) with any kind of show: Tom's neighborhood news, Dick's consumer reports or Uncle Harry's rendition of I'll Take You Home Again, Kathleen...
...until December 31 [the end of his term] or until all post-trial motions are exhausted and a judgment is entered"-which can come no sooner than Aug. 30. Republican Attorney General Evelle Younger backed Reinecke's view. But he added: "Every significant official act you may perform in the meantime may be challenged in the courts by persons who disagree with our legal conclusions. . . This practical problem should be considered...
...Robert L. De Witt, 58, the resigned Bishop of Pennsylvania; the Rt. Rev. Edward Randolph Welles II, 67, the retired Bishop of West Missouri; and the Rt. Rev. Daniel Corrigan, 73, the retired bishop who had headed domestic missions, all apparently ignored a canon that forbids retired bishops to perform "episcopal acts" unless so requested by the local bishop. There was no such request. The fourth participant, the Rt. Rev. José Antonio Ramos, 37, of Costa Rica, was acting out of his jurisdiction. The four could be suspended or deposed by a church trial court...