Word: demeanors
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...President Ford, Carter's touch was uncertain, his demeanor occasionally strident, and his 33-point lead in the polls melted to nothing. Fighting courageously, Ford came close to pulling a Trumanesque upset. But all along, Carter had said calmly, "I do not intend to lose." In the end, of course, he won by 51% to 48%; his plurality of 1,681,417 in the popular vote was far greater than the winning margins of John Kennedy in 1960 and Richard Nixon in 1968. The Democratic Party was Carter's, as well as the White House. Because of his impressive rise...
...DRIVE FOR POWER. Carters charmingly modest demeanor contrasts sharply with a lifetime of superachieving and his single-minded drive to reach the presidency. Even Congressman Andrew Young, a friend and Carter's chosen Ambassador to the U.N., has been put off at times by the cold way his fellow Georgian stalked power...
Fallows is coasting through the final days of the campaign now. Only a couple of major issues speeches remain, and the speechwriter is only a shadowy presence on the road, more quiet and less stern than most of the Carter staffers. His calm demeanor is a striking contrast to his unsettling memories of the past, of a turbulent war against a war that so forcefully shaped his world outlook. And his politics have mellowed similarly. He has shelved an impressive career in journalism to labor for a candidate whose prospective administration is--like any challenger's--full of question marks...
...debates should provide fine spectator sport: valuable for the chance to judge the candidate's character by his demeanor under pressure. But very little real news may emerge. Having campaigned all year, neither Ford nor Carter is apt to be surprised by an unexpected question. Both will be briefed and crammed; both are unfazed at repeating by rote positions previously taken. The likeliest result of such an equal facing-off, as it was in the 1960 Kennedy-Nixon debates, is to make the argument of inexperience suddenly lose much of its force...
...charm." But Parker becomes impatient with endless faculty meetings, such as five sessions to discuss whether or not to install a toilet in the watchman's booth. At Harvard, they typed her as basically hostile, "a female Mencken." Her Cambridge curt speaking manner bugs the Bennington artsies; her demeanor comes across as aloof, cynical and supercilious. She says she wants to be "queen of the hop on a larger scale...