Word: styles
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Says Kentucky Senator Wendell Ford, a former Governor: "I don't know of any Governors or former Governors whom Carter has contacted for support. That might indicate how much support he has among his former colleagues." Adds a onetime Northern Governor: "It was obvious he was a hustler. His style was just a little different: soft voice, soft sell. But there was a political road map all over his face. Jimmy would take advantage of any single opportunity to further himself. He is absolutely driven. But unlike a lot of politicians, he knows who he is and where he wants...
...Northern liberals in the Democratic Party. Carter even boasts of being a redneck?a son of the red-baked Georgia soil without, of course, the racist connotations. Beyond that, he is an earnest Baptist who says that religion is the most important thing in his life. His Southern-style evangelism, showing up in so many of his speeches, irritates the less devout. They are uneasy about a man who uses the word God so easily, so often. He often prays for guidance before making a major decision...
...first half featured less than collegiate style basketball as poor shooting keynoted the action through Harvard's 11-9 lead after ten minutes. Although the Crimson upped the margin to five points, Yale deuced its way back to a slim 25-24 score. The lead seesawed to and fro until Carey nailed a jumper at the buzzer to send the cagers into the dressing room ahead...
Jewish writers have contributed to American literature a new style that fuses "gutter street wisdom and graduate school learning," author Irving Howe said in a speech at Harvard Hall yesterday...
Howe, who spoke on "The Jewish writer and the American tradition," traced the evolution of Jewish authors from their expression of alienation through "gross sentimentality and self-comforting softness" to their eventual creation of an articulate style characterized by a mixture of the "sardonic and the sentimental...