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With the political scientist's zeal for systematizing and defining our political intuitions, Burns modestly attempts to establish a "school of leadership." His purpose is no less than to develop a set of "standards for assessing past, present and potential leaders," and to explain the role of human beings in history. However, given the gargantuan size of his undertaking, the book's failure to meet the high expectations raised in the prologue and Part One does not entirely negate its contribution to our common fund of knowledge on the subject...
...Israel agreed to come to the U.S. and confer face-to-face, and it was apparently only Carter's tireless mediation that kept the talks from ending in a frustrating deadlock. But it should also be noted that Carter's efforts were not simply a product of his missionary zeal; it is clear that the primary U.S. interest in the Middle East is to establish peace. With the Camp David accords, Carter postponed for some time to come the dilemma of what position the U.S. would take in a full scale Arab-Israeli war--a dilemma that would force...
Under the threat of extinction, professors are now giving their lectures more zeal, as well as sell, than they did in the past. Many a full professor who left his undergraduates mostly to wan and preoccupied teaching assistants is back in the classroom going all out. If the crunch on colleges could at last result in something like "teach or perish," instead of publish or perish, the uses of economic adversity might prove sweet indeed for American education...
...With the zeal of the sinner reformed, Charles Jackson Grayson Jr. goes around the country preaching that inflation cannot be defeated by price controls. Sad experience has taught the professor: he was Richard Nixon's price commissioner during the cold, post-freeze days of controls from 1971 through early 1973. Now this much-lettered man (Pennsylvania M.B.A., Harvard D.B.A., ex-FBI agent, ex-S.M.U. business school dean) is trying to sharpen what he considers America's most forceful anti-inflation weapon: productivity...
...zeal, Piranesi turned archaeologist. He measured, calculated, chipped off encrustations and mold from fallen columns. He sketched indefatigably, on occasion even having himself suspended in a rope sling to get the vantage point he wanted. In his etchings, Piranesi embellished and sometimes even reconstructed the ancient structures. He gave the ruins themselves infusions of light, spared no climbing vine or sprouting bush. He often filled his foregrounds with bustling groups of peddlers, fish wives and beggars, whose vitality contrasts with the crumbling architecture...