Word: weaknessness
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The Teeter survey, to be sure, must be balanced against less impressive showings. The latest Harris poll puts Reagan narrowly ahead of Carter, 39% to 34%, with John Anderson at 24%. In one Gallup poll, in which only 26% gave Carter highly favorable ratings, the comparable figure for Reagan was...
That is precisely the kind of devastating war that Continental leaders have always sought to avoid with the protection of the U.S. nuclear umbrella. Seven successive U.S. Presidents, including Jimmy Carter, have emphatically guaranteed that protection. Yet the widely perceived weakness of the present American leadership and the decline of...
The novel survives the weakness of its hero because Percy is as genial and hu mane as Will is obsessed. While the character castigates the world, his creator renders it with loving care. The Second Coming engages the senses as well as the mind, hectoring sometimes, but entertaining all the...
That idealized view gave way to one of America as too rich, too powerful, too heedless of fate. Today Europe's complaint is that America is not rich enough, not powerful enough-and still too heedless of fate. These perceptions of America's early virtue and later vices...
This does not always come off. One detects (especially in parts of the gold-painted environment, The Royal Tides) a note of theatrical pomp, a weakness for the merely spectacular. But Nevelson's black rooms and her array of white sculpture entitled Dawn 's Wedding-the negative reversal...