Word: protectorates
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...strong central government and saw Jefferson as the exponent of weak government and of an excessive trust in the people. Jefferson did not fare much better with progressives, who loved the people all right, but thought a powerful government, wrested away from the interests, was the only sure protector of the people. (Teddy Roosevelt 100 years later was still fuming about Jefferson's foreign policy: "a discredit to my country.") Woodrow Wilson made scholarly attempts to rescue Jefferson from the presidential scrap heap. It was left to Franklin Roosevelt, no scholar but a superb manager of political stage effects...
Some of the new Eisenhower literature goes much beyond a claim that he did nothing harmful. In Eisenhower the President, William Ewald Jr., one of his speech writers, contends that Ike was a masterly administrator and a subtle protector of presidential authority and options, with a sure instinct for when finally to commit. He also argues that the legislative record was at least as constructive as that of various "activist" Administrations of the recent past. All in all, says Ewald, "eight good years-I believe the best in memory...
...truths she depicted four years ago. The five men on Ward X are all psychologically unbalanced, though not crazy enough to warrant being shipped off to out-and-out psycho wards at the army's expense. Nurse Honour Langtry tends this motley flock and plays the role of mother, protector and confessor to her charges. She and her patients have been patiently awaiting their discharges when the sudden arrival of Sergeant Michael E. Johnson, shortly after peace has been declared, disrupts the well-established rhythm of the lives of both patients and nurse...
August, the Williams persona (Craig Smith), lives in a shack on the dunes, writing his first major play and trying to entangle Kip, a dancer and Nijinsky look-alike (Elton Cormier), in his grimy bedsheets. But both Kip and Clare (Dominique Cieri), who acts as his protector, are doomed, he by a brain tumor, she by diabetes. The entire work is shadowed by death, which is approaching as quickly as the fall. Both characters seem so tentative, however, that it is even hard to imagine that the end, when it occurs, will matter much to them or anyone else...
Ironically, the Syrian army had originally entered Lebanon in November 1976 as the protector of the Christians in their civil war against the leftist Muslims and Palestinians. The troops have remained there under a peace-keeping mandate from the Arab League. By 1978, however, the Christians had turned against the Syrians and after bitter fighting managed to force them to withdraw from Christian areas of Beirut...