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...convention to prove to the nation that his town is, as its boosters have been boasting, a city in the midst of a revival. He is well aware of the risk in seizing the national spotlight, if only for a week. "We have our warts," Young says with typical candor, "and we see them too." Republican Party leaders, in turn, hope to use Detroit as a theatrical backdrop in their bid to lure blue-collar workers and blacks away from the Democratic Party...
...basic to his victory four years ago, and he needs it even more urgently this year. The problem is 'not that blacks will desert to Carter's rivals. Reagan's conservative positions turn them off, and John Anderson remains an unknown, although he displayed engaging candor when he told the N.A.A.C.P. convention: "I cannot pretend to know what it is day in and day out to be black in America." The threat to Carter is that blacks may be so disappointed with his performance that they may not vote in large enough numbers to help him take...
...other longtime Reagan loyalists, both fired in a purge by Sears, are once again assuming key roles in the campaign. Lyn Nofziger, who returned in mid-June, is communications director. He is a shade too outspoken and irreverent for Nancy Reagan's taste, but his bluff candor appeals to the traveling correspondents. This month Mike Deaver returns to become the top aide on tour with Reagan, freeing Meese to devote more time to organizational problems. Deaver will keep Reagan briefed, a conspicuous gap in the campaign to date...
...sweepings. Only the simple-minded could shrug it off as nothing more than a side effect of the open and permissive social mode that emerged in the 1960s. Letting it all hang out may be refreshing and even healthy, but not under all circumstances; neither honesty nor candor requires that anybody's, let alone everybody's, intimate life be ventilated on the village green. The booming commerce in intimacies is extraordinary if only because U.S. society so strongly cherished the personal preserve in the past. The American's home may still be his castle, but, given...
With unblinking candor, Martha Lear records every agony, every tantrum, every embarrassment experienced by a man whose body has begun the process of betrayal. No one is spared, least of all the author. She recalls her resentment of the illness that disables both her husband and her marriage: "I ache for him but I resent him as well, this sick, sunken man ... The intensity of the anger that hovers here, beneath what I take to be love, is frightening. I understand the wretched banality of such an anger as this . . . yet it shames and appalls...