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...service, would automatically constitute the state's delegation at the national convention. This year each of Florida's twelve congressional districts will in effect hold a local primary election to choose its delegates to the main event in July. The campaign has brought a young, hustling breed of political organizer to the race. A portrait of one in action...
...have had a long experience in dealing with this type of leader, and let me tell you that they are a different breed of cat. You try to talk to these people on a friendly basis, you try to talk in their language. You ask them, do you want to play baseball? They say, all right, we'll play baseball. You say, nine men on a side? Okay, they agree, nine men on a side. Nine innings in the game? Fine, nine innings in the game. Only by the time you're done, there are six men on the team...
...rumor is correct, the archives will pretty well destroy the Australian notion that the nation's World War II soldiers were a breed of bronzed supermen. During the retreat from Singapore, 300 Aussie soldiers are said to have pushed aside women and children at gunpoint in order to get aboard the liner Empire Star. During the 1942 Japanese bombing of Darwin, soldiers panicked and fled the city ahead of civilians; one air-force deserter was found 300 miles away...
...sense... You know, when you saw Bogie stoically shrugging his shoulders, there was a whole world of what it was to be an American: what was right and what was wrong. On television, you get this incessant fuzzy melange of little segments of things, and I think it must breed in you a different set of expectations, of notions of what people should be doing. I see nothing wrong with trying to sit in a room and turn out stuff that will repay rereading. It makes something kind of solid, or at least in its own terms hard to improve...
...such thesis twisting is the author's failure to recognize that the case against the WASP has already been made-by WASPS. From Nathaniel Hawthorne and Henry James through Sinclair Lewis and J.P. Marquand, the WASP novelist has chosen as a favorite theme the moral decay within his breed...