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...Ronald Reagan's first year in office ends, Washington's political columnists, who like to be crisply assured in their opinions, find themselves baffled in assessing his performance. Consensus seems to be two cheers for Reagan, somewhat begrudged. Not so much cheers for his program or any adeptness in foreign policy, but for his capacity to stay personally popular and for his unexpected skill in having his way with Congress. "The applause from the audience at home and abroad has not been excessive," Columnist James Reston concludes...
...Columnist Joseph Kraft saw the Administration ending its first year "floundering in triumph. The reason is that the goals attained by the President were heavily ideological. Since the Reagan ideology bears scant relation to the real world, his successes make only slight progress on the true problems." In foreign affairs, the globetrotting Kraft finds Washington "lagging behind events . . . Ronald Reagan came to the presidency with only a smattering of general, often incompatible, ideas about foreign policy." The Administration is now subjected to "unkind cuts from friends all over the world"-from West Germany, Israel, Saudi Arabia and China. "First Washington...
...criticized for his role in the arrest of two blacks accused of murder. Corde has been called a racist, a traitor to his home town and a fool. His boss is miffed at the publicity caused by his magazine piece, and his boyhood friend Dewey Spangler, now a famous columnist and "princely communicator," complains that Corde put too much poetry into Chicago...
...confusing to the reader. Buckley's narrative line has some loops and kinks. From a scene in which Oakes awaits sentence for espionage in Moscow, the book flashes back to Fascist Italy and fashionable Washington with a romantic side trip to Bermuda. Buckley the novelist, unlike Buckley the columnist and lecturer, is not out to score debating points. But there are some targets of opportunity that are too juicy to overlook. An American Communist lawyer, representing a captured Soviet spy, aggressively defends his client's civil rights in a manner that bespeaks contempt for America and its democratic...
...cannot be changed by preaching. Yet it is fitting considering the frequent bleakness of the world of the jobless to mourn the nation's way of casually accepting increased unemployment as an unavoidable trade-off cost in the effort to achieve monetary stability and defeat inflation. News paper Columnist Russell Baker had the notion of that trade-off in mind a few years back when he wrote: "It is obvious that unemployment is an honorable form of service to the nation." The pity is that he spoke more truth than humor. -By Frank Trippett