Word: planning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Dulin maintains order by playing head of the "family" with such authority that the 32 teachers and 515 students all call him "Daddy." If he sometimes has to sound more like an angry stepfather than a soul brother to make a point, that is all part of his plan. As he told diocese officials at the time of his hiring, "I want to be the H.N.I.C. That means the Head Nigger In Charge...
Outside his home ground, Zapata was frequently regarded as an obstinate savage by the succession of national leaders who rose and fell in the bloody welter of an inconclusive revolution. What he and his people wanted was set down with forceful simplicity in the Plan de Ayala, the catechism of Zapatismo and a landmark document in the history of Mexico's agrarian reform. Perhaps the most important point in the plan was the one that called for the surrender of one-third of hacienda lands to the farmers...
Staying True. When the Constitutionalist Venustiano Carranza and his "new, nationalist entrepreneurs" became powerful in 1914, Zapata met his match in tenacity and deadly seriousness. The Carrancistas plundered, says Womack, "not for fun but on business." Zapata recognized that Carranza posed a serious threat to the Plan de Ayala. Even the thought of meeting Carranza's envoys filled Zapata with dread...
...Cohen decided to postpone the opening indefinitely, with all performances in New York designated as "previews" until he considered Dear World ready for an opening before critics. While critics accept this practice of previews as an addition to the road tryout period, they could not abide by Cohen's plan to play the unfinished show into the distant future before paying audiences. Several of the first-nighters threatened to show up at the show unannounced one night and write reviews for the next morning. To head this off, Cohen finally set the premiere date--last night, a full three months...
...delivered the Southern vote at the convention and in the election, didn't waste time with any Whittenesque theatrics. Knowing where the power was, he sent a series of messages to Nixon expressing his "concern" over Finch's cut-off. After Finch gave in to the grace-period plan, Thurmond said that he thought it was wise: "We need to take more time in these things...