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...would shine quietly, modestly. Others, like Publisher William Rusher, would exhort the assembled "to stamp out any remaining embers of liberalism." A war whoop was in the air?black tie, to be sure?but still the unmistakable sound of a faction reprieved, at last in power, thanks to the boyish man at the other end of the country, whose time had definitely come...
...Brokaw, NBC's Mr. Clean, an experienced journalist with the snub nose and boyish good looks of the class president, the boy most likely to succeed...
When Reagan finally went downstairs to make his victory speech to wildly cheering supporters, he struck the same mixed tone of humility and boyish glee that so obviously had charmed American voters during the campaign. Said he: "I consider that trust you have placed in me sacred, and I give you my sacred oath that I will do my utmost to justify your faith." That was the sober side; the other showed a few moments later when supporters brought him a cake shaped like the country, lush with flags marking the states he had carried. As the bearers held...
...opponent, the boyish, personable Congressman, neither looks nor acts like the venomous creation of the New Right that Culver depicts. To Culver's charge that Grassley accepted campaign funds from out-of-state oil and chemical companies and right-wing groups like the National Conservative Political Action Committee, Grassley notes that the incumbent has received money from out-of-state labor unions and New York City liberals. Says Grassley: "Who's a tool of what organization? He talks about N.C.P.A.C., but what about ADA [the liberal Americans for Democratic Action...
Probably not any more. After Agee's clarifying exercise, his company issued a statement that a "major disclosure" would be forthcoming the next day, but then "upon further reflection," Agee decided that "we just didn't have any more to say." That was boyish optimism; there have been several additional announcements from the company since, the sum effect of which has been to hoist the lucky couple out of the business world toward the shrines of American folklore. It was also boyish optimism that inspired Agee to make his clarifying gesture in the first place. A realist will...