Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Clinton, Mass., a faded, heavily Democratic mill town (pop. 13,300) west of Boston, friendly citizens applauded the President's every remark at a folksy town assembly. Two sons of Edward and Katherine Thompson, a merry middle-class Irish couple with whom Carter spent the night, even joked about having a Chief Executive in their home. "Should we stand when he comes in?" asked Edward Thompson, 27. "No," quipped his brother Richard, 16, "we're going to kneel...
...comrade, it is the beginning of a new day," he said to Khaalis. "I would like you, my brother, to join in a prayer to Allah that it will be a day of compassion, honor and bravery." Khaalis protested that the place where he was appeared "unclean." This remark convinced the negotiators that Khaalis was a devout Muslim who would pray only in clean surroundings, as Islamic tradition prescribes. Now there was hope, for a source of leverage existed-the compassion cited in the Koran...
...publicly apologized for what he described as "the role some Government officials, agencies and private groups played in the subversion of the democratically elected Chilean government." Though Carter himself condemned the U.S. during the campaign for helping to overthrow "an elected government," he reprimanded Tyson for making an "inappropriate" remark...
...chairman last December after Michael Blumenthal was selected to be Jimmy Carter's Treasury Secretary, is a tested and talented manager and financial man-as he tells anyone who asks. Practically the only thing he is touchy about is his age: businessmen, Wall Streeters and journalists often remark how unusual it is for a 39-year-old to run a company so huge. "Look," says Agee, "there aren't a lot of people who have had-at whatever age -the top management responsibility and deep involvement that I have...
...DANCER-FRIEND of mine overheard choreographer Beth Soll remark, as she tacked up posters announcing her January concert "Clear-field," that it was about time she considered doing a more accessible piece. Funny that another Boston dance company recently has made just that decision. New England Dinosaur, which last spring gave a concert of five wonderfully inaccessible dances last month presented "The Tree of Life," the sort of piece suited for lecture demonstrations in high school gyms on "modern dance...