public life

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Jimmy Carter’s campaign pledge of “a government as good as its people” spoke to the restoration of morality in public life but proved inadequate to the challenges of the late 1970s.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 23, 2026

If anyone still in public life knows how much freight that phrase carries, it would be him.

From Salon • Jun. 7, 2026

But just months after his capture in a stunning raid by US special forces, the interim government is gradually erasing Maduro's visage from public life.

From Barron's • May 16, 2026

In Meghalaya's capital, music spills constantly through public life: church choirs rehearsing late into the evening, teenage metal bands in garages, blues musicians drifting through dimly-lit bars.

From BBC • May 15, 2026

They remain aloof from the modern temptation that captivates many in America’s middle class: the temptation to relieve the anonymity of public life by trying to make it intimate.

From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez