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...race is probably the least costly Senate contest in the country. Each candidate plans to spend only about $350,000. Thus the outcome may turn largely on the candidates' campaign styles. Rudman is jovial and smooth, a "pussycat," as one campaign follower says. By contrast, Durkin is blunt and brusque; even Wife Pat concedes that "John isn't the smoothest character in town." But this is no handicap in New Hampshire, where voters prefer their politicians to be flinty...
Carter started his attack earlier this month with insinuations that Reagan was opposed to world peace and in favor of an arms race that could lead to nuclear war. Last week he blitzed again. The blunt message: Reagan was a racist...
...Nature did not make me willowy," Dixy Lee Ray once observed. Nature did not make her a diplomat, either. Four years ago, intrigued by Ray's bluff manners and blunt speech, voters elected her Governor of Washington. But once she was in office, her attitude came to seem less hearty than arrogant, and last week she went down to a stunning defeat. Democrats chose State Senator James A. McDermott as their gubernatorial nominee, with 59% of the votes...
...scathing indictment by William H. Sullivan, former U.S. Ambassador to Tehran. In the latest round of one of Washington's favorite parlor games, "Who Lost Iran?" Sullivan pins the tail squarely on Brzezinski, accusing him of undermining diplomatic efforts to open contacts with the Ayatullah Khomeini and thus blunt the anti-Americanism of the revolutionary regime. Writing in the fall issue of Foreign Policy magazine, Sullivan also claims that Brzezinski first scuttled a U.S. plan to mediate between Khomeini and the Iranian armed forces, then tried to organize by remote control an anti-Khomeini military coup, even after...
...polemics of H.L. Mencken, the essayist has approached the inherent conflicting interests of his craft with a full larder of whimsical irony. Immersed in the wage-earning and ephemeral world of four-alarm fires and political intrigue, the true essayist has had to continually suppress or blunt what E.B. White calls "the childish belief that everything he thinks about, everything that happens to him, is of general interest...