Word: slow
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Private Ivan Chonkin bears a Slavic resemblance to Jaroslav Haśek's The Good Soldier Schweik. But where Schweik was a shrewd operator in the Austro-Czech army of World War I, Good Soldier Chonkin belongs to an older tradition. He is the wise fool, the slow-witted peasant who mulishly plows a straight furrow through a devious world. Chonkin even looks as if he had plodded from the pages of folklore, "his field shirt hanging out over his belt, his forage cap down over his big red ears, his puttees slipping...
...This is a very slow and detailed and thorough and deliberative process," said Jimmy Carter of his Cabinet making. Indeed it was. Despite the President-elect's public serenity, there were some serious snags−most notably in persuading the right people to serve, especially women and blacks...
EUROCOMMUNISM: "We should not favor Communists in power [in Western Europe]. But to the extent that Euro-Communism is moving toward de-Stalinization and then to de-Leninization, it is something we should welcome. In the long run, it will affect Soviet control, but it's a slow process. If a West European party comes to power too soon, it could set this process back...
...pace. He flew to Atlanta and Washington, conferred with scores of businessmen, Congressmen, northeastern Governors; the future Commander in Chief also called on Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and the Joint Chiefs of Staff at the Pentagon, and toured the national military command center. On appointments, however, he remained intentionally slow and methodical. While flying on a chartered Boeing 727 from Atlanta to Washington, he told TIME Correspondent Stanley Cloud: "These may be the most important two months of my first term. I'm anxious to get people into their jobs so that they take responsibility from me that...
Crimson captain Bill Griffen's horse seemed more interested in having a good time than playing the game and Bobo Tanner's mount was unusually slow...