Word: styles
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Byrd's friends say he does have strong views but prefers not to impose them directly on his colleagues. That leadership style is well suited to the Senate's new hunger for recognition as an efficient deliberative body. Neither a cajoling arm twister like Lyndon Johnson nor a permissive parent like mild-mannered Mike Mansfield, Byrd is distinguished by his ability to gauge correctly what a majority of the Senate wants. Then he manipulates the rules and cashes in enough old favors to ensure that its will is done...
...Seneca's day. Old age is as inevitable now as it was 2,000 years ago. Despite jogging's obvious benefits (for some people), it can do no more than slow the decline of the heart and lungs. The most conscientious exercises, careful diet and cautious life-style cannot halt the gradual hardening of the arteries, or prevent the reduced output of critical hormones, or bring a cessation to the wholesale death of brain cells. Such holding actions as face-lifts and skin treatments are ultimately futile. They do not stop the stiffening of tissue that causes wrinkling...
...denying workers "a really better life" by refusing "to accept the need to challenge the privileges of the very rich." Anti-Socialist demonstrations by Communist workers were denounced as a "provocation" by Gaston Defferre, the Socialist mayor of Marseille. Questioning the Communists' much-vaunted devotion to Western-style democracy, Defferre sardonically observed that they preferred "a popular democracy of the type Czechoslovakia has to endure." Angered by the attacks on him, Mitterrand complained at a Socialist meeting that the Communists had been "committing aggression against us nearly every day and accusing us of every sin in the world...
...hours to... takeoff? Lindbergh made it to Paris in less time 50 years ago, when Freddie Laker was a toddler of four. What's more, Lindy did not have a toothache, as did I, and he was warmer and drier. My wait began at noon Sunday in London-style rain and drizzle outside the Laker Travel Center in Queens, New York, five miles from Kennedy Airport. Not until 12:38 a.m. Tuesday-1% hours behind schedule -did we lift off from Kennedy...
Speculation cannot be limited to these three. All are known as administrators, and in the pendulum philosophy of many cardinals, Paul's successor should exhibit a pastoral style, not unlike that of Pope John XXIII. Such an approach, they feel, might provide a far more accessible papacy and a welcome father figure for the world's 710 million Roman Catholics...