Word: worke
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...defending him, Carter conceded that he might have acted too abruptly. He also acknowledged that he should have invited more Republicans (and also Senator Ted Kennedy) to the reassessment sessions at Camp David. But he bluntly told the staffers that anyone who did not share his goals should seek work elsewhere. He had no qualms about the controversial evaluation forms passed out by Jordan...
...pollster divides his time between houses on Boston's Beacon Hill and in Georgetown. When in Washington, he spends most of his working and leisure hours with Carter's Georgians. Indeed, when three of them separated from their wives, the men temporarily moved in with him: first Chief of Staff Hamilton Jordan, then Image Maker Gerald Rafshoon and finally Presidential Assistant Tim Kraft. Says Caddell with a laugh: "The President told me that I was running a halfway house for transients to and from marriage." Caddell's few relaxations include voracious reading, from bestselling novels to heavy...
...when dissension comes to be regarded as intolerable. Democracies must work in a tension between unity and dissent, majority rule and minority rights. But some underlying consensus about common direction is necessary, and that is now difficult to locate. "The lack of leadership is effect and not cause," says Historian Eugene Genovese. "It would be very difficult to point out a set of values about which you could say that most Americans could agree. I think our society has become largely purposeless...
Shock Corridor was written and directed by Samuel Fuller, whose work--confoundingly--is seldom shown around Boston...
Olivier has much the same problem, only much worse. He comes on with his elaborate fussing and bogus accent, and just as he begins to work his magic, the way he did under the sluggish lenses of Daniel Petrie (The Betsy) and Franklin J. Schaffner (The Boys From Brazil), Badham cuts away. Olivier is a man of the stage, and cold entrances don't suit him; it takes him awhile to warm up. The only time Badham holds on him for any length of time is after he's just rammed a stake through his daughter's heart, at which...