Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Said he: "It becomes the task of leaders to call forth the vast and restless energies of our people to build for the future." That is precisely the area in which the low-key Carter has yet to prove himself...
Most staff members are under 40, well educated, well paid (many are at the $40,000 level), and reflect the political leanings of their employers. Their power has grown out of the desire of Congress to compete with the previously overwhelming expertise of the vast bureaucracy of the Executive Branch. Also, legislative issues have grown more complex, and Congress has taken its watchdog function over the Administration more seriously. No Congressman can hope to absorb by himself most of the increasingly technical information demanded by both the expanded work of Congress and a more insistent and sophisticated public...
...recent issue of the Financial Analysts Journal, Gutmann argues that there is in the U.S. nearly $400 in cash per capita floating around outside banks. With checks and credit cards, who needs all that green? His answer: "This currency lubricates a vast amount of nonreported work and employment," and the amount is as large as the legal G.N.P. of the U.S. in the middle of World...
...visitors would go to watch them caper and babble in Bethlehem Hospital ("Bedlam") in London or the Bicetre in Paris. In the 19th century, philanthropy suppressed that, and shame closed the asylums to view, so that insanity was not only confined but also hidden. Our own culture, despite its vast interest in neurosis, has not been able to forgive its madmen their lunacy. Thus the last taboo subject for photography is not sex, probably not even death, but madness. The act of photographing a mad person seems to return to the voyeurism of Bedlam-insanity as entertainment...
...implicated the University in an immoral war--and an end to uncontrolled University expansion, which uprooted poor Cambridge and Boston residents from their neighborhoods. Later they began to push for the establishment of an Afro-American Studies Department at Harvard, claiming that widespread racism had slowed its appearance. The vast majority of Harvard students supported these demands, if not the group's militant tactics. Several days later, 10,000 students massed in Soldiers Field and voted a general strike to support the demands. For the following days, most students boycotted their classes. Most Harvard students seemed to have been convinced...