Word: icons
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...chaste welcome center on my left with only three cars in the lot, then the silos and water tank, and finally the nice row of brick stores that have easily endured their freight of souvenirs and the acid marinade of countless photographs to remain as anyone's icon of small-town America. They are not exactly an architecturally distinguished row, but their variety and fantasy of ornament and color make pictures of Reagan's home street in Tampico, Ill., look dour...
...thing that has sustained Carter through his time of leadership has been his personal appeal, a good man struggling to get experience against impossible odds and sinister forces. Now he seems to threaten that very icon of decency that he has created with such labor. He has turned away for the moment from his old friend St. Mark: "For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul...
...last week I worked on my thesis with him, for example, he rearranged his schedule so that I could drop off a chapter with him in the evenings, and pick it up the next morning at 9 a.m. with his comments. I felt like my crudely drawn icon had been labored on overnight by an ego-less angel liberal with light and gold-leaf...