Word: columnist
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...disaffection within the Democratic Party toward Carter arises from the increasingly obvious nature of his political conservatism. The Washington Post columnist Clayton Fritchey recently wrote that Carter is the most conservative Democratic president since Grover Cleveland, who was first elected in 1884. That this is apparently so is illustrated in Fritchey's article, quoting Carter's summation of his January 19 State of the Union address: "Government cannot solve our problems. It cannot set our goals. It cannot define our vision. Government cannot eliminate poverty, or provide a bountiful economy, or reduce inflation, or save our cities, or cure illiteracy...
...Boston Globe syndicated columnist Ellen Goodman recently wrote in an article about the late Hubert Humphrey that "It's ultimately as difficult to be a totally content person in an unjust society as it is to enjoy a banquet surrounded by starving people." It is difficult to believe that Jimmy Carter is not content in his way or that Jerry Brown isn't content in his world of Zen Buddhism and E.F. ("Small is Beautiful") Schumacher quotations, but it may well be true that Gary Hart is the only one among the prospective 1980 Democratic hopefuls who is discontented...
William Safire, New York Times columnist and former Nixon speechwriter, who believes in equal opportunity for Democrats to have their own Watergate, raised familiar questions: What did he know? When did he know it? In this case, they were fair questions. Affidavits released last week showed that a veteran Justice Department official, Russell Baker Jr., had been notified by Marston's office as early as last Aug. 17 about an investigation involving Eilberg, a powerful House Judiciary subcommittee chairman. Eilberg's Philadelphia law firm had received a handsome $500,000 in legal fees while helping to obtain federal...
...this gets him into excesses of rhetoric. Carter digs his own trapholes-the idealist devoted to human rights can be downright fulsome when meeting dictators. Why, asked Columnist William F. Buckley Jr., did Carter, in a situation that called for only ambiguous politeness, say that the Communist leaders of Poland and the autocratic Shah of Iran share the same ideals that...
...distinguished New York lawyer whose reportage can make the driest case read like The Caine Mutiny Court Martial. Two previous books based on his own courtroom experiences, My Life in Court and The Jury Returns, were longtime bestsellers. Nizer represented Journalist Quentin Reynolds in a successful libel suit against Columnist Westbrook Pegler, and the account was exciting enough to be made into a Broadway play and a TV drama. The present volume suffers greatly by comparison. Part autobiography, part a philosophical guide to the law, it is mostly leftovers, with only a few fresh morsels to offer...