Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What begins to seem clear on a second look then is how little is changed, since the Inauguration at least. In a remarkable exercise of control under pressure, the town council has severely limited commercial building. In addition to the two shops mentioned and the church, I could count only one other shop (more souvenirs) and a small grocery store; no neon in sight. The nearest motels are still ten miles away in Americus; and while there are one or two opportunities for respectable snacks in Plains itself (try the Main Street Cafe), the nearest full menu is also toward...
...visitor, however sympathetic, is prone to feel that the hope is deluded. The stripped-down Protestant faith of the townsmen should have readied them for that. Where two or three are gathered together, there first of all is Satan: pride of self, envy, greed. While it seems a near certainty that Plains' magnetism for tourists will diminish (when I was there, I saw a mere 300 a day-lots of parking, no crush), it also seems certain that the green crossroads and its 600 souls can never lapse into pre-Carter life. The cause is not Jimmy...
...black in winter green; slow wheeling buzzards, hawks stalled above like statues of hawks, long crepe ribbons of starlings drifting south. The fact that crucial landmarks from the formative years of a man of present immense world power are spaced round at intervals with no signposts may come to seem trivial in the uninsistent grandeur of the place itself, the inhuman place...
...well they are used. Politicians run on the amounts they get for their districts, not what the dollars do. In the mounting political debate, the billions of dollars become objects moved around on a game board in a contest between parties and ideologies. The people involved seem to worry more about how they play the game than about the national interest...
...plenty of examples seem to indicate that lack of trustworthiness in one area can carry over into others. When Jeanie Kasindorf, a writer for New West magazine, started investigating Columbia Pictures Chief David Begelman, she decided to query Yale, his alma mater, to follow up rumors of bad checks. Problem: Begelman had never attended Yale. Although Begelman was indicted for forgery and grand theft, the Hollywood types were more outraged that he had listed Yale in Who's Who. Apparently they figured that everybody steals money. Says Kasindorf: "It was the fact that he lied about Yale that drove...