Word: trait
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Chirac makes decisions impulsively and quickly-a trait that some observers predict will sooner or later lead him into a fatal blunder. Observes National Assembly President Edgar Faure: "Giscard plays bridge. Chirac plays poker." Gaullist leader Yves Guena looks at Chirac's propensity to take political gambles somewhat differently: "Chirac's real genius is his intuition...
Clarence Barksdale, 44, board chairman of the First National Bank of St. Louis, said one trait was not essential: superior intelligence. He noted: "My home-state guy, Harry Truman, said, 'The C students run the world.' " Kansas City Police Chief Joseph McNamara, 41, pinpointed "good judgment." Said he: "We can have someone with wonderful traits. If his judgment is poor, the net results are going to be bad." Some noted that a leader showed his judgment in selecting as lieutenants people who either complemented his own skills or were smarter than the boss...
...Another trait was suggested by Transportation Secretary William Coleman Jr., 56, who addressed the group on its final evening. He argued that, with leaders
...speechwriter who left his position with Carter with a blast about the Georgian's alleged two-facedness. After three months working for Carter, Fallows has concluded that Shrum's reaction was understandable but wrong. "Carter can be a curt, cold man," Fallows says. "But if you accept this character trait and balance off the times the candidate has not said certain things to certain audiences with "the times he does say things to audiences which are not politic," then you don't emerge with the image of a Nixonesque, calculating Carter that Shrum offered...
...method has its hazards. It is often difficult to tell if a national trait derives from an unconscious attachment to tradition or simply from the weight of practical circumstances. A Revolution Is Not a Dinner Party does not adequately explain some of the darker aspects of China's modern experience: the nearly irrational passion of such campaigns as the Cultural Revolution, or Mao's tendency to litter the political arena with the corpses of former friends. By ignoring these parts of the Chinese reality, or treating them as derivations of the past, Solomon sometimes appears a bit apologetic...