Word: temperance
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reason for urgency is that cathedral artisans are a dying breed. No two stones in the edifice are alike. Hand-crafted from Indiana Limestone, they are put in place by the 25 skilled stonemasons now on the site. Then there are the eleven stone carvers. The occasional quick temper of the master of the group, Roger Morigi, 68, is immortalized in a carving by a colleague: a Morigi-like head has an atomic bomb cloud forming over it. The stone carvers work under the alert eye of John Fanfani, 52, who is the son and nephew of two carvers...
...even more deadly on the stump than Bayh; and Maine's Senator Ed Muskie, who is a tested leader, but is seen as a failed candidate since his 1972 flop. Two men unlikely to be considered are Congressman Mo Udall, who pointedly pricked the usually controlled Carter temper the last couple of months, and California Governor Jerry Brown, who Carter staffers say has been flatly ruled out on the basis of too little experience and too much eccentricity. Carter's advisers say both blacks and women are being considered: Detroit Mayor Coleman Young and Texas Congresswoman Barbara Jordan...
...from liberal candidates as conservative. In fact, some of the most trenchant assaults on liberalism have been mounted by liberal renegades, whose arguments are honed by their disappointment. Harvard Sociologist Nathan Glazer is among the "neoconservative" writers, clustered about Commentary and The Public Interest, who object to the antidemocratic temper that has infected much of the liberal-left in America...
...demanding boss but one who readily delegates authority. Says Rafshoon: "He doesn't get involved in details or try to do your work for you. He expects the best possible work; if he doesn't get it, he gets rid of you." Rarely does Carter lose his temper. When something goes wrong, says Rafshoon, "he becomes cold and methodical...
...There are three million people in the armed services," DePriest said. "How are one or two people going to temper three million...