Word: wente
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sure, her itinerary took her through territory that Carter had alienated. "In 1977 the Texas Farmworkers Union went to Washington, and Carter would not receive us," said Union Leader Antonio Orendain. "If next year weren't an election year, she never would have come." Said Dancy Buttery of Harlingen: "This is a last-ditch attempt to save face. Carter has had three years to make a difference. It's been a waste...
...native Minnesotan, Donovan was graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Minnesota and went on to Oxford as a Rhodes scholar. He was lured away from his plans to teach history by the better starting pay of a $25-a-week reporting job on the Washington Post. (Said the Post in an editorial last week: "Mr. Donovan... is a man of such enormous professional talent and personal distinction that whatever he does for the Carter presidency is bound to be a plus.") Donovan covered the State Department, Capitol Hill and the White House before serving as an intelligence officer...
Despite all the problems, there remains a strong optimism about leadership. Followers persist in the belief that crises produce leaders, in the way that the blitz produced Churchill. But obviously, leadership does not arise automatically, mystically, from need. The Hittites and Mayas went into crisis, and no leaders could rescue them from their extinction. The Black Death swept across the 14th century, and nobody came forward to lead men out of their chaotic misery...
Bill Lee--the last hold out of "the heads"--cleaned out his locker amd went home for a few days, leaving nothing but a lit candle on Zimmer's desk in memory of his friend and comrade Carbo...
...Brown, the regent of volcanic soul, and even after all these years (say around 20) and some pretty rag ged records, royalty is due some respect. Nice thing is, James does not warrant any special considerations this time around. This is a solid, soulful record that shows where disco went to school. At least one cut, the wonderfully titled It's Too Funky in Here, could be played on the radio from now to Christmas. -Jay Cocks