Word: styles
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Staff Writer Walter Isaacson, who got out from behind his desk in Manhattan to catch Connally in action at some Northeastern whistlestops. As a native son of Louisiana and former city hall reporter for the New Orleans States-Item, Isaacson is familiar with the eccentricities of Southern politicians. "Their style," he says, "is a stimulating mix of the byzantine and the evangelical." This week, after a year and a half as a Nation writer in New York, Isaacson begins a new assignment as a congressional correspondent in Washington, D.C., thus moving even closer to the heart of Dixie...
...feel he will be a tremendous asset to our nation. He will continue in the same spirit as Andy in terms of trying to win friends for America." The Rev. Joseph Lowery, president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, was equally enthusiastic. "There may be a change in style from Andy. McHenry won't be as informal, but there won't be a change in the battle for world peace." While more restrained, Jewish leaders also expressed satisfaction with Carter's choice. Said Howard Squadron, president of the American Jewish Congress: "I suspect Carter is trying...
Connally hopes his forceful style will help him cut across ideological lines and win support from blacks and workers who have opposed him in the past. At a building trades convention in New Jersey this summer, his rousing speech had union members cheering. Labor leaders passed the word to hold back on providing him many more such forums. He campaigned last month in black and ethnic neighborhoods of Providence, and has hired a Chicago firm to devise a strategy to lure black votes...
...Hyde Park. Lately, too, his songs have grown rather more introspective and relaxed, concentrating on private dilemmas and domestic relations. A just released album called Lucky Day opens with a modified disco tune that flirts with frivolity. But the record closes out on a sardonic anthem in the old style, England My England. The song discusses the shortsighted lives of Lazy Eddie ("If the sea was beer he'd probably sign the pledge") and his benighted girlfriend and gives them their own little marching song: "England my England, my England, my my/ We are your children, oh England...
...AMOUNT OF FINESSE in style, however, could mask the coarseness and presumption of Chysler's plea. The goal was an unprecedented tax credit, carved out just for Chrysler, that would have let the company count its losses as profits--allowing it to deduct the cost of capital improvements from its federal taxes, something only profitable companies are normally allowed to do. If Chrysler failed to turn a profit again, its losses would become the government's losses, a neat trick by anyone's standards. Chrysler's strategy for achieving this goal was a mixture of guilt-tripping and blackmailing...