Word: right
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Three generations of the Cavendish family grace the show, each with its doubts and troubles but all united in the unshakable belief that they hold the key to theatrical success in their genes. Hitting the right notes of arrogance and aristocratic off-handedness must be a trial. and not surprisingly only one of the Cavendishes at the Loeb finds the perfect balance. Shirley Wilber animates Fanny Cavendish, the grand dame of both stage and family, with accomplished ease: she seems as comfortable acting the role on stage as her comfortable acting the role on stage as her character does adding...
Ronald Reagan: The Republican front runner is trying to smooth the edges of his earlier right-wing stridency. His chief economic adviser: Martin Anderson, who was a member of Richard Nixon's White House staff. Like Brown, Reagan calls for a constitutional limit on unrestrained spending. He also urges an income tax cut, perhaps as much as 33%, arguing that the boost to business would quickly result in more productivity. That, in theory, would generate increased tax receipts and cut the budget deficit. Reagan advocates the indexing of income tax rates-that is, people would pay taxes...
John Connally: The business community's favorite candidate has put together the most comprehensive program. About a dozen right-leaning economists, including Charls Walker, Murray Weidenbaum and Albert Cox, are threshing out positions for him on everything from a value added tax (he sees merit in the idea but thinks it falls too harshly on those who earn the least) to a constitutional limit on spending (only "as a last resort"). Connally favors faster write-offs for capital investment, proposes large new jolts of defense spending and wants deep, budget-wide cuts in just about everything else, basically...
...feels, will they produce ideas. "I cannot ever remember telling a manager, 'Now, you can't do this.' Instead, I might say, 'If I were doing it, I wouldn't do it your way. But I do not believe that there is just one right way to do something.' " There are times-not many-when a Gelco manager takes a risk and flops...
...real Baptists," a man says softly. How so? "Ask our leaders,' comes the reply. Where are they? "I don't know." There is a pause. "You won't get the right story from the official Baptists," he says finally. "Mixing church and state...