Word: moffett
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...last week and remarked: "If this were France, the Democratic Party would be five parties." The somewhat chaotic individualism of American politics these days can have its charm, but it is also dangerous. Congress now has all the discipline of a five-year-old's birthday party. Toby Moffett, 34, a Democratic Connecticut Congressman who was not even a member of the party until a couple of weeks before he filed in 1974, remarks with some chagrin: "We get to Washington and we're not prone to look for leadership the way they used...
...even those who sympathize with him are not sure what he is trying to do, and this gives them the uneasy feeling that he and his inexperienced staff may not know what they are doing either. Notes Anthony Moffett, a Democratic Congressman from Connecticut: "People are saying to him, 'Tell me where I'm going and I'm ready to go.' But they aren't getting an answer." A revealing account of this uncertainty came from a Carter campaign veteran who is now a White House aide: "I really think that for all his political...
...haystacks, the rose-twined tunnel of the arbor leading to his house, the water. To reproduce their subtleties is impossible; to recollect the differences of tone between one painting and another, apparently identical, defeats the most trained visual memory. But the show's organizers, Art Historians Charles Moffett of the Met and James N. Wood of the St. Louis Art Museum, have disclosed the minute differences in an exemplary way: the sight of the variations en série, hung together, is one of the noblest spectacles of fine discrimination in the history...
Typical of younger, newer members of Congress, Anthony J. ("Toby ") Moffett, 33, is experienced, outspoken-and so independent that he did not even register as a Democrat until three weeks before he filed in 1974 to run for the House from northern Connecticut's Sixth District. Before that, he earned a master's degree in urban affairs at Boston College, worked with Boston street gangs for the U.S. Office of Education, was the first director of HEW's Office of Students and Youth, was a Senate aide to Walter Mondale and headed Ralph Nader's organization...
...later, with Harvard on the power play, McDonald popped home the icemen's first man-up tally since the Penn game. The freshman from Winthrop, MA., did it all on his own, shifting by two defenders after a pass from Jackie Hughes and flipping a wrister past the pathetic Moffett who went down more than Jerry Quarry last night...