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Jimmy Carter won with a combination of grit, driving ambition, daring if flawed political planning and a generous measure of good luck. As a campaigner, he struck many voters as more enigmatic than charismatic, as more of a trimmer than a visionary-and perhaps not really likable enough. In the end, he did not so much win the presidency as avoid losing...
...year ago it was 21-3--Saturday in Philadelphia it was 20-8--and considering the fact that the Quakers committed the ungodly number of nine turnovers (six interceptions, three fumbles), the 12-point margin is certainly a generous...
Though the book has drawn predictable cries of outrage from many doctors and led one physician-reviewer to note that Berman seems to be trying to do for his profession what Jaws did for ocean bathing, others have been more generous. After reading the corrosive chapter on his own specialty, Heart Surgeon Denton Cooley, himself a target of a few Berman barbs, commented: "A lot of fun." A plastic surgeon said that "anyone who is upset does not have a sense of humor." Rockland State Hospital's Dr. Nathan Kline, who is twitted along with other psychiatrists for pushing...
...GROVE PRESS offers up this plump, accessible volume to the generous consideration of literary skimmers who have shied away from the deepening mire of Beckett study. Interest in Beckett is at once so sticky a wicket to most people that they turn away from even the intrinsic pleasure of his works, and at the same time so enchantingly open to interpreters that the PMLA index mushrooms yearly with new entries under his name. The flood of criticism is growing so rapidly that Richard Seaver estimates in his introduction it will surpass in bulk by the year 2000 the secondary work...
...place a spotter with a walkie-talkie in the stands to help position his fielders. The scheme was approved for one man, but the Reds detected three operatives wired for sound and complained. Kuhn put Radio Free Yankees off the air for the first game, but, in a compromise generous enough to be wished in the Middle East, authorized two scouts for remaining games...