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...unblinkered, plain-talking tellers of uncomfortable truths, with a keen eye for hypocrisy. Curmudgeons are amusing, colorful and, most important, utterly harmless. Mr. Conservative's public career spanned 40 years, and for most of them he managed to be thought curmudgeonly--almost universally enjoyed, like a prickly old teddy bear you can't help hugging...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Conscience of a Curmudgeon: BARRY GOLDWATER (1909-1998) | 6/8/1998 | See Source »

...conservative psycho become the prickly teddy bear? Simple: Goldwater lost, and lost big--so big, in fact, that no one could seriously entertain the idea that he would ever become President or again be leader of his party. Declawed, he returned to Capitol Hill, where as one Senator among 100 he was free to make his caustic observations, to the general amusement of adversaries who not long before considered him deranged. Richard Nixon, he said, was "the most dishonest individual I have ever met in my life." Bob Dole, Goldwater's leader in the Senate in the 1980s, "doesn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Conscience of a Curmudgeon: BARRY GOLDWATER (1909-1998) | 6/8/1998 | See Source »

...numbers bear them...

Author: By Scott A. Resnick, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Increasing Trend Toward Careerism Is Controversial | 6/4/1998 | See Source »

...ofapathy, we could be understood as not takingChristianity seriously," read the message, whichwas provided to The Crimson by a member of thegroup. "Understand that when we go before a blackchurch or a black elementary school and say we'reabout to sing gospel with nearly half our memberswhite, we immediately bear the burden of proof...

Author: By Georgia N. Alexakis, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Personal Politics | 6/4/1998 | See Source »

...Mills says Robinson has experience overcoming resistance and restrictions on her power, and that she can successfully bring a force to bear on world decision makers...

Author: By Alan E. Wirzbicki, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Next Campaign | 6/4/1998 | See Source »

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