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...presidential speculations is California Gov. Jerry Brown. Although a latecomer to the 1976 contest for the Democratic nomination, Brown dealt the Carter candidacy some stunning, if ultimately not mortal blows by beating Carter in the last six primaries in which they ran head to head. Esquire's national affairs editor Richard Reeves, who wrote one of the earliest profiles of Brown back in 1975 in which he characterized him as "the most interesting politician in the U.S..," has a long piece on Brown in last month's issue. Reeves argues that a Brown candidacy would constitute not only a potent...
...observers have remained so detached. New Republic contributing editor Roger Morris, in the third installment of that magazine's excellent "Pretenders to the Throne" series on presidential hopefuls in both parties (TNR. Jan. 28), attacks Brown for his vagueness on the issues and his lack of commitment to serious reform. Arguing that Brown's nonideological politics are "abstract, stylishly popular and perhaps personally gratifying, but ultimately barren regarding authentic change in government," Morris condemns Brown as a glib opportunist, if not an outright demagogue...
Nowhere were editors angrier than at Newsweek, which is owned by the Washington Post Co., and which had agreed to pay the Times Syndicate $125,000-plus the promise of advance publicity-for U.S. magazine rights to the book. "We have had better days," said Newsweek Editor Edward Kosner the day the Post version appeared. Katharine Graham, chairman of the parent Washington Post Co., would not comment on whether she permitted her newspaper to upstage her magazine; but obviously she had, as she had learned of the Post's acquisition the night before it was published. Her observation: "Newsweek...
...absurdity to say that God makes himself into man. God cannot be anything other than God." Father Pierre-Marie Beaude of the Center for Theological Studies in Caen thinks that early church leaders had to "murder their founding father Jesus" to develop into maturity, while Father Michel Pinchon, editor of the magazine Jésus, writes of his liberation from "idolatry" of Jesus, who "does not present himself as an end or an absolute...
...number of factors,¹ the typical scholarly article is now a footnote-clotted monstrosity comprehensible only to the few friends, enemies and students who already know what is on the author's mind. Everybody talks about the academic smog; Mary-Claire van Leunen, a writer and editor, has done something about...