Word: processing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Bravo, Helmut Schmidt, for your superb courage and sangfroid. The world was watching in agony for the fate of the hostages and the credibility of the democratic process...
...wrote for Ike, wonder if Carter would not be better off with more limited and formal rhetoric. Harry McPherson, one of L.B.J.'s speechmen, has long contended that important presidential speeches are far more than just speeches. When done properly, they force an Administration through a laborious internal process, establishing directions, making decisions, hammering out exact language and calculating how to arrest attention and enlist the public. If the preliminaries are not done, or are done badly, the speech is rarely worth anything and is frequently alarming for the evidence of inner doubt it presents...
...column headlined LET'S GO, SOUTH BRONX! Robbins warned Watson to avoid endless consultations with city officials and urban planners. "In New York," Robbins cautioned, "the process is often the product." He then offered suggestions for turning the South Bronx into "one of the best residential and industrial locations in New York City." Items...
...tooth-for-tooth warfare snapped a six-week cease-fire along the border that had been arranged by the U.S. The confrontation threatened to snag the slow and painful process by which President Carter hopes to get Israelis and Arabs together at a Geneva peace conference, presumably this year. At his press conference last week, Carter deplored the heavy loss of life, but he declined to single out Israel for striking what had obviously turned out to be civilian targets. "The overriding consideration," the President said, "is not to condemn Israel at this point for retaliation, but just...
...ller never stoops to cheap nostalgia or self-righteous despair. Each page is keyed to a child's comprehension; each of the meticulous landscapes shows compassion as well as irony in the face of the familiar. A companion suite, The Changing City, shows the same process in an urban environment, from the calm, dignified arrangements of turn-of-the-century houses to the epoch of right-angle multiple housing and fast-food enterprises...