Word: reform
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...students thought they could have done better than either man. Declared University of Virginia Sophomore David Barol: "Ford's attack on Congress was a strong point. I can't understand why Carter didn't point out Ford had been in Congress 25 years and done nothing to try to reform it." Perhaps as good an analysis as any was embodied in the "counterklutzical theory" formulated by TIME'S West Coast bureau chief, Jess Cook, who thought Ford may have won because so little was expected of him. Wrote Cook of Ford's "strategy...
...rational explanation of complex subjects. At any rate, the White House, figuring that Ford won Round 1 and should do well in the future, likes the old format just fine. Carter's forces by week's end had not yet made it known if they favored reform. But a lot of other experts had ideas...
...thought that because madness and genius are often inextricably related, he could take a "shortcut to genius" by cultivating madness. It is questionable whether Crosby even succeeded at madness. He was never quite comfortable in the life he had chosen for himself, and was always making earnest resolutions to reform. During his cult-of-the-sun phase, which succeeded his Wilde/Huysmans phase, Crosby traveled to Egypt, Constantinople, Beirut and other suitably exotic places. The trip was not a success; "As a worshipper of the sun, he was handicapped by an aversion to heat and to southern parts." Something...
...said she believes that the ability to know when to enact social reforms depends on that type of timing. If the people are ready for a reform and pushing for it, a president who has been reborn can sense that the social climate is ready for new legislation...
Last month Heflin became chairman of the Conference of Chief Justices. Naturally, he will spend much of his year in office spreading the word to the rest of the U.S. about the lessons in court reform it can learn from Alabama...