Word: straws
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...combat. They package their own dead in black plastic bags for shipment back to the States. The men develop their own techniques for dealing with death. Cynical Deacon (Frank Adu) sells photos of the latest enemy kills as if they had been bagged on safari. Simple-minded Straw (Donald Warfield) tends the bodies with gentle piety. Others deal in raw humor or are narcotized by whores. The linchpin of the play is Micah (John Heard), a college boy for whom Nam, as they call it, is agonizing shorthand for the delayed initiation rite of manhood...
...President enlisted his Cabinet as working partners in the crisis. Straw-bossing the operation was Energy Chief James Schlesinger, who helped draft the natural gas bill and cut red tape to get gas supplies moving. When Carter left his Cabinet meeting, he put Schlesinger in charge of a "more thorough discussion." Says a White House aide: "Schlesinger has been a sort of battlefield commander. He's been in the middle of the fray, not in a tower in the White House." An early riser, Schlesinger has been calling his aides at 7a.m. "Jim has imparted a sense of urgency...
THERE IS MORE than a little irony in this year's CHUL discussions and straw votes. Last year, I covered the CHUL housing debates through December, January, and February. Then, the committee discussed essentially the same issues, (four-year or three-year Houses, uniformity in the system, sex ratios, and methods of House assignments), and held a similar series of straw votes on the various options. It also faced the same problem of changeover in student membership from January to February...
...present housing system was included as an option in the straw votes, but nobody spoke in favor of it in the time allotted on the agenda, and no one voted for either the status quo, or the status quo "pending further study" as a first choice. Dean Rosovsky saw this agreement that there must be some changes made as encouraging. There was little else at the meeting from which to draw encouragement, or even a smile, unless it was Rosovsky's own one-liners...
...ROSOVSKY is still the key. He says that he takes no positions, and merely listens to the debates, but the debaters must always realize that the final decision rests with him. Their straw votes, even their final recommendations, mean nothing if he decides on a different course. His presence adds some weight and importance to the proceedings, but the committee's function remains advisory rather than legislative...