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...entered the nation's lore as a figure to be, depending on one's point of view, admired or despised. J.P. Marquand observed somewhat ambiguously that "if you have ever been to Harvard, you will never be allowed to forget it." F. Scott Fitzgerald, a devoted Princetonian, was blunter. "I don't know why," said Amory Blaine, one of his heroes, "but I think of all Harvard men as sissies...
Those sentiments took on a more assertive tone at a White House press briefing. Spokesman Larry Speakes stated flatly that when the hotly disputed election results were "complete," both sides should "work to form a viable government without violence." A senior White House official was even blunter. Said he: "The main thrust of our statement is not to have demonstrations in the streets just because you did not like the election. A strong government is essential to maintain a peaceful resolution of the problems that face the Filipinos...
...days later, in talks with another visitor, Italian Prime Minister Benedetto Craxi, Gorbachev delivered an even blunter message. U.S. refusal to halt the Star Wars program, he warned, could lead to not only "the subversion of the Geneva talks but the scrapping of every prospect for an end to the arms race...
That is for the record. Privately, U.N. Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick has told friends worriedly that the tension between Shultz, her nominal superior, and Weinberger has become "palpable." A Pentagon insider is blunter. Their dislike, says he, "is only thinly disguised when they meet publicly...
Howard's biography is shrewd and intelligent and supplies all the details about Margaret Mead, down to her recipe for salad dressing. Bateson's memoir is more an act of poetic intuition. Yet she is blunter than Howard about her mother's affairs with lovers of both sexes, and more specific about the earth mother's need to be mothered herself...