Word: protectively
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...believes this is the best way to ride out the storm. Yet it seems far more likely that Carter's sense of loyalty to those who gambled their own careers on his long shot at reaching the top is the real reason he is risking so much to protect his most personally compatible colleague. Carter's spectacular political rise was achieved almost wholly by his own efforts and those of his fellow Georgians. To turn his back on any of them would be, in a sense, a refutation of his own origins...
...play the role. "Do it," he urged. "You'll treat me kindly." Since then Quinn has thought a lot about Onassis-and about Sánchez. Says he: "There is a similarity in their dreams. Sánchez's dream was to build a house to protect him from the world, while Onassis' dream was to build an island to protect himself." In both characters, Quinn says, he finds "a certain emptiness...
...estimated 6,000 local residents plan to boycott the first day of school this week as black transfer students are bused into a dozen schools in the section. When rumors spread that police might develop "blue flu" that day-calling in sick-so that they would not have to protect black children, Jackson hinted that black men might have to ride the buses carrying the transfers...
...should be noted, if only for the record, that the opus is officially billed as fiction. The basic source is John Ehrlichman's roman à clef, The Company, and all the famous names have been changed to protect the guilty. Even so, it is not hard to identify such major characters as President Richard Monckton (Jason Robards), ex-President Esker Scott Anderson (Andy Griffith), CIA Chief William Martin (Cliff Robertson) or National Security Council Head Carl Tessler (Harold Gould). Lesser Watergate lights-from Hugh Sloan to Howard Hunt-should be recognizable to anyone who has seen All the President...
...suspended from the wall with a wooden plaque beneath it labeled FAIRY SWATTER. The gays demanded that the plaque be axed-or else. It was. The next target was Attorney Adam Walinsky, a former aide to Robert Kennedy. Walinsky had written an article questioning a special law to protect homosexuals. About 50 gays, some wielding baseball bats, hired a bus in Manhattan and headed for Walinsky's home in Scarsdale. When they arrived at 11 p.m., they cut the telephone lines to the house, pelted it with eggs, set off firecrackers, and chanted through bullhorns: "Walinsky, you liar...