Word: detective
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...grueling of exercises only to have training compressed into a minute and a half? Those who don't row crew at this school, those who watch their roommates tumble out of bed at 6 a.m. in the middle of winter for a brisk jog, those who can't help detect a rower's inexplicable calm during reading period, ask this question. After all, rowers have their daily workout, their daily dose...
...pair agree on almost everything, which often leads to the confused comment: "I read it in 'Ann Landers'-or was it 'Dear Abby'?" Some connoisseurs think they can detect a difference. When the Modesto Bee (circ. 65,490) asked its readers last October to vote on which column to run, Landers won by a landslide, 837 to 97. But most readers-and editors -agree with Austin American-Statesman (circ. 128,093) Managing Editor Jeff Bruce, whose paper, like many others, carries both columns. Says he: "I suspect most readers cannot tell one from the other...
...ever. This is not easy, given his spectacular career. So he dwells whenever possible on failure. He finds in two of his early novels "a badness beyond the power of criticism properly to evoke." He studies himself as a beginning writer and concludes: "I am not sure that I detect much promise in his work." He characterizes his low-echelon work with the British Secret Service during World War II as "futile." Occasionally, he has to confront the specter of one of his triumphs. He does so suspiciously: "The Heart of the Matter was a success in the great vulgar...
Some observers detect in him a touch of demagogy and personal vanity. One photographer who has followed Walesa notes that he never passes a mirror without stopping to pat his hair into place. In interviews, he sometimes seems flippant to the point of arrogance. In private conversation, he has a marked fondness for first-person pronouns. In public appearances, however, he can exhibit flashes of deep humility. A crowd of miners in Jastrzebie last October asked Walesa who could teach them democracy. His answer: "Who? Not Lesio [a diminutive of Lech], for he is too small, too stupid. Yourselves. Everybody...
...Carter and Reagan analysts detect two other trends among women voters: they are more likely to make up their minds later than men and to stay with an incumbent. This so worried Carter's advisers in 1976 that Pollster Patrick Caddell warned in a late-campaign memo that women were staying with President Gerald Ford in numbers great enough to defeat Carter. As the challenger, Carter then made a pitch for the women's vote and wound up losing it to Ford by only 51% to 48%. Some 4.5 million more women than men voted in that election...