Word: urbane
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Overall, Ford was pushed more often into defensive positions. The three reporters, including a notably haughty Joseph Kraft, hurled some of their fastest pitches at the President-although other questions (about the propriety of constitutional amendments, the "urban intentions" of the candidates) were, in the trade idiom, real softballs. Carter exploited the challenger's advantage of attacking the incumbent's record. Both candidates probably reinforced their supporters' choice. Loosening his grip on the podium, Ford used hand gestures and head movements more freely than in the past. Carter's softer, yet still coolly assertive tone...
...without reigniting inflation. Thus, to reach his goal of 4½% unemployment and create jobs for roughly 1 million unemployed people, Carter would push selective Government job programs-subsidies for companies to hire the unemployed, a plan like the old CCC to put jobless youths to work on urban clean-up and build-up projects, and the like. He argues that the programs would ultimately pay for themselves by getting people off the dole and turning them into productive taxpayers. Remembering that such schemes did not dent unemployment much during the 1960s, some of his advisers are skeptical. Still, others...
...National Urban League argue, however, that the U.S. actually underestimates unemployment because it does not count people who have become so discouraged about seeking work that they have dropped out of the labor force. Counting them in, the AFL-CIO reckons that unemployment in September was not 7.8% but actually...
...leak out of China. Among them: Vice Education Minister Ch'ih Ch'un, the head of Peking's Tsinghua University, long a bastion of radical power, and Shanghai Party Secretary Ma T'ien-shui. Ma, the wall posters declared, had plotted to arm the urban militia in order to seize power in Shanghai...
...family in town. But he is gradually stifled. Kurosawa is not facile, and he does not hymn the natural man just to condemn the spiritual debilitations of modern life. Dersu Uzala takes place during the first decade of the century and suggests that the ideal reconciliation of urban knowledge and bucolic temperament is, sadly, unattainable. Dersu Uzala may be a shade over-inflated and simplistic, but it also has the clear resonance of genius. Kurosawa can find grandeur in the intimate as well as the infinite...