Word: talking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...doing this for the country." But Rosalynn was not merely carrying the President's message and bringing his greetings. No less important, she was listening for the President. Said she: "I can get closer to the people than he can, and then I can go back and talk to him about their hopes and dreams." As Carter has often said, Rosalynn is his closest adviser and confidante. And as she herself once observed: "I have always been more political than he is." Said one pundit: "She's the Mom of the Mom and Pop presidency...
...contacts in top intellectual, political, diplomatic and financial circles. Donovan, who has known Carter since he was Governor of Georgia, was suggested for such a role by Sol Linowitz, chief U.S. negotiator of the Panama Canal treaties (and a member of Time Inc.'s board). After a long talk with Carter at the White House, several calls from other Administration officials, and two days of personal deliberation, Donovan decided to accept...
...ever been to a science-fiction convention you've seen them in a less egregious form: short, bad complexion, slightly overweight, greasy hair, glasses, copy of Stranger in a Strange Landdiscreetly folded over an otherwise prominent hard-on. At least they have something to talk about: the possibilities of sending Isaac Asimov to Pluto, or the time Mr. Sulu's left ball was shot off by Klingons. It's worse at Dracula conventions: the plastic fangs they wear inhibit conversation, and instead of meeting tall, gaunt, Continental types they find only themselves, or else fat, greasy middle-aged...
...once news of the mass resignations in the President's official family broke Tuesday afternoon, talk of import quotas, synthetic fuels and energy independence was drowned out by a new buzz of puzzled speculation. Early in the week congressional Democrats were talking about whooping through key parts of the President's program, including the windfall-profits tax on oil companies that is supposed to provide all the money for Carter's plans, before the legislators recess on Aug. 3 for four weeks. But by week's end they were making plain that Carter, and the nation...
...their meeting was in itself almost symbolic of the point the Briks had come to in their lives. Their Petrograd apartment was a mixture of fashionable bohemianism and middle-class elegance ... The atmosphere was strained when Elsa and Mayakovsky came in. Unwilling to sit down to make polite small talk, he hulked in the doorway to the dining room as the others settled at the table for tea. Lili leaned over to Elsa and whispered, 'Please, I beg you, tell Mayakovsky not to bore us today. Tell him not to read us any poetry...