Word: personality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Second, listless campaigning habits, and a failure to generate confidence and energy in his followers. According to Shaddeg's report, after one speech Goldwater "left the rossrum, paused only briefly to speak to one person at the edge of the crowd, then entered the elevator and went up to his suite on the fiftenth floor. His sudden departure had not been prearranged. In his 1958 campaign...Goldwater had always stayed around and visited with the audience afterwards." The candidate's coldness naturally left the "disappointed Goldwater supporters...angry and bewildered...
When I called information to find out John Shevlin's telephone number, the person who took my call reacted with a displeased, "Oh, the quarterback." Four days ago, no one but Shevlin's mother would have known he played quarterback for Harvard...
...settling for surface rather than substance. His program for the church is renewal, to be achieved, much like L.B.J.'s dream of the Great Society, by consensus?a goal that can easily thwarted by compromise or by inaction where no reconciliation is possible A man genuinely humble in person, he is eager to preserve the prestige of his office?an aim that sometimes leads urn to empty or overly ambitious gestures. Within the past two weeks, the Pauline manner has been dramatically visible in three major acts of his pontificate: the announcement of his trip to the U.N.; the issuance...
...millions of Catholics, the very fact that Paul is Christ's Vicar on earth puts him beyond criticism. "The prince of teachers is an exalted person, kumo no ue?above the clouds," says one elderly Japanese Catholic lady, sweetly. Many priests and prelates share the enthusiastic view of Archbishop Dino Staffa, secretary of Rome's Congregation of Seminaries, who says that "we are only at the beginning of a pontificate that promises to be truly great." Others agree with Atlanta's Archbishop Paul Hallinan that the Pope's cautious approach to progress is precisely what is needed for the church...
...many of these same clergy and laymen describe Paul as a puzzle, an enigma, a Hamlet. "He has such a blah personality," complains one New York suburban housewife. A baffled Jesuit philosopher says: "I feel like a bull in a ring. Sometimes he goes one way, and I try to follow him, and then he goes the other way. Cagey, amorphous personalities make me unhappy." Many Catholic progressives are now convinced that Paul has deliberately sided all along with the conservative Curia, and they openly resent it. Austrian Historian Friedrich Heer fumes at "this small, narrow-minded, petit bourgeois person...