Word: populists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...populist who tries to please everyone winds up pleasing...
...John Stennis, 76, is Mississippi's other Senator, and the state has not seen a real race for the upper house in 31 years. Now seven eager Democrats and two Republicans are seeking Eastland's seat. The most prominent contender is Governor Cliff Finch, 51, a gladhanding populist who enjoys support among rural whites and urban blacks. But any Governor makes enemies, and three Democrats have a shot at upsetting Finch: his predecessor, former Governor Bill Waller, 51, a folksy Jackson lawyer who has a broad black following after twice prosecuting the accused murderer of Civil Rights Leader...
...that respect, it is unlike the only comparable museum (in terms of cost, elaboration and civic importance) to have been built in recent years, the Pompidou Center in the Beaubourg section of Paris. "Le Pompidoglio," as the French sardonically call it, turned out to be one of those populist-utopian fantasies of the '60s that have not yet been made to work. As a public meeting place, it certainly succeeds. Half Paris has taken to riding up and down its dramatic glass escalator tube, squinting through the pigeon droppings on the curved panes at a superb view of the city...
...building is a kind of nobility and finesse that, one might have thought, were all but lost to architecture, there is nothing intimidating about the East wing. It is hospitable, welcoming both to art and to its audience, and condescending to no one. Neither snooty nor tackily populist, it is a lesson in civic good manners. "The aim of architecture is to build well. Well-building hath three conditions: commodity, firm ness and delight." Sir Henry Wotton's maxim is as true today as it was 350 years ago, and Pei's building reminds us that the sense of ethical...
...Simon) David Freeman is the most controversial energy expert in the Federal Government, and one of the mightiest. Last week President Carter, who admires Freeman's populist approach, appointed him to the most respected operating position Washington has to offer in energy: chairmanship of the Tennessee Valley Authority, the nation's largest and only federally owned utility (1977 sales: $1.96 billion...