Word: roosevelt
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...doesn't this country have leaders like Roosevelt any more? some Americans wistfully ask. Nostalgia, of course, obscures the tremendous dissension and even hatred that were aimed at F.D.R. in the White House. Still, figures of his size may now be obsolete. The era of great individualists came to an end with Lyndon Johnson, and we are still trying to adjust to the new reality. Johnson lost two wars?the one in Viet Nam and the one against poverty; he demonstrated, among other things, that the resources of the U.S. are finite, a new and chastening realization for Americans...
...length, Government assumed responsibility for the dream. From Roosevelt to Johnson, Government gradually accepted the franchise for the physical, social, economic and moral welfare of the nation...
...historian father's theory of the cyclical rhythm of national events. "We have periods of action and passion and reform," says Schlesinger, "until the country is worn out, and then periods of passivity, negativism, quietism." The first two decades of this century were periods of action. "Teddy Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson wore the country out." Then came the relative political torpor of the '20s, followed by the fierce activity of the '30s and '40s, the quietism of the '50s, then the eruptions of the '60s and early '70s. After the introversion of the mid-and later '70s, Schlesinger believes...
ARTHUR SCHLESINGER JR., historian (City University of New York): I don't see around the kind of people who constituted leadership when I was younger. Everything looked better when people like Franklin Roosevelt, Reinhold Niebuhr and the like were alive...
...good a definition of the craft as any, and if anybody should know, it is George Burns, who started performing in 1903, not long after Teddy Roosevelt became President. "Nobody," he insists, "is older than I am." Groucho, Jack Benny, Fred Allen, Fanny Brice, Amos and Andy, and Gracie Allen, George's partner and wife for four decades: almost all the great comedians of the '30s and '40s are gone. But Burns, who is 83, is still around to enjoy the applause. His first dramatic role, in The Sunshine Boys, won him an Academy Award, and that...