Word: fields
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...home. Anyone with the time to wander the county, to wait for the strong old rhythms of its life to sound their bass beneath the cashbox jingle, will see how the place has added to the man large measures of its own calm, its silent demonstration (at field's edge, in shacks, on more fortunate porches) of the few but urgent needs of human continuance, of-more urgent still -the needs of the earth. You may even come away with something like my own sense that what is regrettable in Jimmy's life now is your...
...included stints as Governor of Texas, Secretary of the Navy in the Kennedy Administration, Secretary of the Treasury under President Nixon and even as a defendant (eventually acquitted) in a Watergate-era bribery trial. He thus became the first major Republican to announce his candidacy for President in a field that may bloom to ten before the primary-election season opens in New Hampshire...
...surely as a bird flying north marks spring, or the sounds of Mr. Test floating down Mem Hall mark exam period, the posturing, the hand-shaking, the favor-doing, the responsible-statesman tone of voice, the fund-raising, the denial of candidacy mark running for office. This year's field of contenders is even more of a National Lampoon parody than usual. Take the rerun of the '76 Republican dogfight (elephant fight?), for example, only this time Old Ronald McDonald Reagan is approaching the age of mandatory retirement for most jobs and Gerry Ford is still Gerry Ford, unfortunately more...
Fans of pre-meet prognostication were disappointed yesterday, but fans of the Harvard women's track and field were not, as the fifth-seeded Crimson triumphed in the Greater Boston Championships yesterday...
WHEN IT COMES down to it, the Republicans will drop off one-by-one splintering the field, throwing away public tax moneys from the presidential campaign chests to tell us how much money they want to save us in taxes, leaving the older war-horses (no more elephant jokes, please) to slowly tire each other to a standstill. Carter will use the full powers of the Presidency to fight off Brown and Kennedy and possibly a host of Governors who made 1979 inaugural speeches sounding suspiciously like 1981 inaugural speeches...