Word: strength
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...interest rates. By appointing him, Carter appears to be giving a sign that he will not dilute his anti-inflationary policies in order to stop an election-year recession. Said the President: "He shares my determination to vigorously pursue the battle against inflation at home and to ensure the strength and stability of the dollar abroad...
...that gets to the crux of an issue, Donovan is equally intrigued by and perceptive about events at home and abroad. In recent speeches he has expressed his pride in America's past and, despite present problems, his optimism about the future. "One secret of America's strength is that two strains-rebelliousness and willingness to accept orders-run strongly through our national life," he says. "From the tension between these tendencies I think part of the American dynamism is created." He has contended that "our failure to achieve civilized race relations is America's most serious...
...leadership than half a decade ago. Margaret Thatcher, Britain's new Prime Minister, has taken a decisive, confident line, though her countrymen must wait to see where it leads. Germany's Helmut Schmidt and France's Valéry Giscard d'Estaing govern their countries with an effective margin of strength and popularity...
...something in Dracula tapped the best of him. True, it was an impersonal vampire, a far cry from Langella's more complex lover. But Bram Stoker's Dracula is not much of human being, either. Lee was such a commanding Dracula, statuesque and solemn but with tremendous reserves of strength, capable of exploding at any given instant into blazing, hellish fury. Yet he was also capable of displaying a kind of cynical tenderness that lulled his victims into a trance before he turned animal and sank his fangs into their throats. The latter Dracula films were undercut by hackneyed scripts...
...Tear, St. Clement Danes School Boys' Choir, London Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, Andre Previn conductor, Angel). Berlin born and Hollywood bred, Previn continues to show a surprising flair for English music. Here he leads a zesty performance of a piece that, like so much English music, makes a strength of its provincialism: it has medieval and folk echoes, strikes a resolutely winsome and pastoral note, and is steeped in native literature (with settings of verses by poets from Herrick and Blake to Auden). Britten composed it when he was 35, and he took such an obvious delight...