Word: round
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...part of our Bicentennial observance, TIME asked the leaders of nations round the world to speak to the American people through the pages of TIME on how they see the U.S. and what they hope, and expect, from it in the years ahead. This message from Mohammed Reza Pahlavi Shah of Iran is the third in 'the series...
...courage. He started out months ago, entered into every contest in every state, and he won 'em and he lost 'em, and by God, you have got to admire a guy like that." Daley's clear signal: the time had come for Democrats to rally round Jimmy Carter...
George McGovern suggested to the Carter staff last week that he would be available to act as a unifier on behalf of the Carter candidacy. McGovern may well give a major speech, stressing the rally-round-Carter theme, at or just before the Democratic Convention. In the days ahead, when Carter meets with former foes, he will probably renew the pledge he made when George Wallace phoned him to bury the hatchet at 2 a.m. last Wednesday: "George, I'll make you the best President this country ever had." Even in the flush of victory, that was quite a statement...
...windup of the most costly, complicated and exhausting round of presidential primaries the U.S. had ever put on. Between 6 a.m. last Feb. 24 in New Hampshire and 8 p.m. last Tuesday in California, some 25 million Americans had voted in 31 primaries-the most ever. By direct vote they chose about 75%-also the most ever-of all the Democratic and Republican delegates who will sit in the nominating conventions this summer. The marathon had cost the candidates and the taxpayers at least $65 million. The process had left many a numb politician and citizen wondering if there...
...Congreve's stature. In The Way of the World, Congreve walks as close as he ever could in Moliere's footsteps. He casts a pitiless light on the vices of a leisure class that is trapped too high on the social scale for aspiration. Following an endless round of pleasure, these people are self-indulgent, inconstant, frustrated and foiled. In their cynical worldliness they dare not believe in friendship or hope for love. They are as tarnished within as they are polished without. They talk as one might expect people to talk in heaven, but they live like...