Word: soundness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Sound as some of his new moves were, Carter had to deal with an Executive Branch still shaken by a fortnight of rumors and uncertainties that followed the President's astonishing request for the resignation of all 34 Cabinet members and top aides. He started the week by requesting a meeting with his entire staff. Some 300 of them crowded into the East Room on Monday afternoon, and those who could not fit in watched over closed-circuit television. Despite the fact that Rosalynn and new Chief of Staff Hamilton Jordan were publicly defending him, Carter conceded that...
Donovan expresses himself with conviction and candor. His sound, unruffled judgment as an editor under deadline pressure has been one of his great strengths. It is a quality sure to be valued in the White House. Donovan believes that his achievements will depend primarily on how he and the President get along...
...like the stature or potential influence of Alexander Solzhenitsyn. Now there are a lot of mini-leaders. Irving Kristol is the acknowledged godfather of the [neoconservative] movement. But he probably couldn't persuade a Boy Scout troop to make a right turn, even if you gave him quadraphonic sound. So in that sense he's not a leader...
Perhaps we are so taken with Skripkin's speech because we are in a similar position. Assaulted by Sellars' sound and fury, we feel as confused, trapped and embarrassed as Skripkin in his cage. Why does Peter Sellars have so much contempt for his audience that he goes so far out of his way to make things inaccessible...
...should be, about as typical in looks and problems as a teen-ager can be. Except for this one quirk: though his background is middle-class and Middle Western-strictly white bread-he has taken to speaking with a heavy Italian accent. From his room comes the sound of Italian opera and language lessons, he has renamed the family cat Fellini, and induced his mother to cook what his father disgustedly calls "ini" food-zucchini, linguini, that sort of thing...