Word: answer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...stayed, with Koch holding a 20-percentage-point lead in most polls, while Goodman and Farber muddle around in the single-digit range. But if most New Yorkers believe Koch is the answer, they seem to have failed to ask the question: Who is Koch, and why is he going to run Gotham? What makes him different from Cuomo, Beame, or the rest of the lifeless pack...
...answer most given is that he is the liberal, the compassionate but pragmatic leader of the city's Roosevelt-liberal coalition. The pundits snicker at the credentials of Cuomo, who carries the endorsement of the official party but whose political past renders him more than suspect. Cuomo is a political harple, the experts say, an unconscionably ambitious man with no political scruples. They chuckle at his fate: When he was no longer of use to Carey, who propped him up as a straw man to draw away Beame's support in the primary, the governor dumped him. Now Cuomo draws...
Part of the answer is that it's hard to quit. After you've played organized sports since the age of seven, being a team athlete is very much a part of your life...
There are some things that aren't so good--a long, predictable article by Barry Commoner on Carter's energy plan, claiming the sun is the solution. And the interview with Vernon Jordan, director of the National Urban League, is alternately sad and boring. Boring because Jordan refuses to answer questions, playing cagey. Sad because he still doesn't realize that Jimmy Carter was elected as a total outsider, and while he may have a moral commitment to the blacks who elected him he doesn't have a political commitment, because he knows better than anyone else that they really...
...failure is not a good omen for Milkman's flight. But the attempt, Morrison suggests, is the important thing. Milkman must decide between a deathly isolated respectability, or death through a loving freedom. The choice is not an easy one to make, but, Morrison suggests, there is only one answer...