Word: styles
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...there was that sunburst of a smile that people would always remember. Right from the start, he was perceived as being a rather different kind of politician compared with the rest of the field?as different in philosophy and tactics, it was to turn out, as in personal style. He not only knew what he wanted; he also sensed, at least in the primary elections, what the American people wanted...
...seems more certain that Carter will make good on his promise of a more modest presidential style. He plans to wear a blue business suit to his-Inaugural, instead of the customary morning clothes, and, when no formal guests are expected, to don jeans from time to time while working in the White House. He may also continue to stay overnight occasionally in private homes as he travels the U.S. He wants to minimize the use of Air Force One and to ride in an armored Ford LTD instead of the bigger and fancier Continental limousine most Presidents have used...
...race for the state senate and what he did when he won it set Carter's political style. Issues counted little; he came on as the outsider who would do better than the bigwigs on the inside. When they cheated him of victory and threatened his life if he kicked about it, he kicked and won, noticing along the way that he could count on "the people" against their delinquent public servants. He excelled at his homework. Having promised to read every bill brought up before the state senate, he ran into 2,300 of them. So he took...
...year it gives Executive Seminars to evangelize the wealthy. In an unusual event for the headquarters, ex-Black Panther Eldridge Cleaver and his wife Kathleen were baptized in the pool last Oct. 10. Expanding in Washington, meanwhile, Bright got wealthy laymen to donate $500,000 for a French-style mansion that the Catholic archdiocese wanted to unload as unfittingly grandiose, and he turned it into the Christian Embassy for low-key evangelism of government officials. Though less than 5% of his staff members have any theological training, many hold Ph.D.s or business school degrees. With its computerized efficiency, Campus Crusade...
Back Off. Even those who favor this born-again brand of Christianity are often privately critical of Bright's methods. Campus Crusade is "run like a dictatorship with a military style," says one prominent Evangelical. Complains another: "The system becomes more important than the message...