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Connally's sure, deep voice exudes confidence, comforting and commanding his Chicago audience like a wise smalltown sheriff. Speaking without a prepared text, he ticks off facts and figures, developing his arguments lucidly and engaging his listeners with a tone of careful sincerity. He is always controlled, raising his voice only for emphasis. Yet he comes across as a vibrant orator, striking an emphatic rhythm like an oldtime Democrat. His Texan images are simple but colorful: the stubborn steer, the weak-kneed politician, the businessman cowering in fear of the Government. Connally has the earthiness of a backland tenant farmer...
...pure than that of a learned and upright judge. He exerts an influence like the dews of heaven falling without observation," said Daniel Webster, no doubt casting his eyes heavenward. Definitions of a good judge read like recommendations for sainthood: compassionate yet firm, at once patient and decisive, all wise and upstanding...
...major and never plan to take a math course. I just sat and drew little pictures of my high school algebra teachers, which I then impaled on slices of percentage pie. Of course under the new Core, you may have to take a Math course. Still it may be wise to do as badly as you can, so you can slip through with a core equivalent of Math...
...personally think it's a very key site to the Square, visually and design-wise, so it has to be approached sensitively," he said...
...solution, Wriston argues, would be to grant the President and a panel of four or five wise people the absolute authority to suspend all restrictions in order to permit the construction of five to ten huge energy projects. "By limiting the number of projects, we would limit damage to the environment. We have to be prepared to say, 'The steam shovel starts tomorrow morning, and the snail darter will go the way of all flesh, but the lights won't go out.-" If, on the other hand, the U.S. remains unwilling to compromise, it will be plagued...