Word: sayed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Stevenson is toying with the idea of running for President against Carter or even starting a third party. He is also considering television appearances. Though his TV presence is less than electrifying, he believes the American people are ready to listen to common sense, as his father used to say. "I don't think ideas are incompatible with political reality," he declares. "I may be the real politician. The others may be the unrealistic ones...
...Hope wants to contradict the image of the 'me' generation, to say there are lots of different ways young people are making a contribution to society," she said...
...When all the teams are eating in a dining hall there is usually a Middlebury table, a Dartmouth table, and then there's a Burke table. I don't know if I'm alienating people, but I don't spend much time with the people here. I would say that 70 per cent of my college enjoyment is in seeing my old friends," she added...
...Masiell's assessment of the peculiar fate of 20th-century man emerges unmistakably from this musical potpourri. A shameless and sincere romantic, he laughs defiantly in the face of the world's many troubles. "They'll only get you down if you let 'em," he seems to say, and in light of his professional struggles, and his father's chronic illness, his is the voice of experience. There is a sordidness and crudity in many of the renditions reminiscent often of Joel Grey in Cabaret. Furthermore, Masiell's carriage, and four husky, underdressed, female sidekicks make the whole performance seem...
This is not to say that moral considerations should not enter into the making of foreign policy. But moral considerations, such as Carter's vaunted human rights policy, must be defined solely as an end, not a means, of U.S. foreign policy. Expressions of concern for human rights violations should not be used as a lever designed to knock a government off balance or to make short-term political capital. Too often the United States has callously and inconsistently used its human rights policy as a geopolitical bargaining chip without regard for genuine human suffering in many nations...