Word: glenns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Reagan people think Glenn would be a more formidable candidate, in more conservative regions, but his chances of nomination are less than 50-50," Wilson said. Glenn, Wilson explained, could run a successful campaign by telling voters, "'I have all of Reagan's strengths, and none of his weaknesses. I'm more cautious and circumspect on foreign policy matters than...
...Glenn can do no wrong. He's honest, he's clean, he loves America, he hates the "darned Russians." His character is great enough to win over even the most skeptical audience. At a packed opening weekend Boston showing, the crowd hissed Glenn's very appearance at the start of the screening, but was wildly cheering him by the time he hold his intimidated wife that he was behind her "one hundred percent" if she wanted to stand up the Vice President of one United States...
...being "Mr. Clean Marine" is not enough not even for the moviemakers. The question is does Glenn have if-that elusive concept of boldness and skill definable only as "the right stuff?" And what is it, anyway? Here the film equivocates...
YEAGER is the sobering backdrop to all the fanfare that lionizes Glenn and his crew. He was the first man to break the barrier, a feat he pulled in 1947, and he continues to push technology to the limit, returning to the cockpit to each time his speed record is broken. The public doesn't care about Yeager. (A military officer squelched initial publicity of the sound barrier accomplishment for "security reasons.") And, Yeager doesn't care about having a public. He just wants challenge...
...similar perspective on Glenn arises in today's contest. Every major public option poll shows him running about even with chief interplay rival Walter F. Mondale and he is widely described as "the only Democrat who can beat Reagan." Yet the question remains, as Mondale has put it, whether Glean is really a "true Democrat." He made it to the Senate largely on his glory, not on the grass roots meeting-hall, Humphreyesque training that Mondale and others boast. He has troubles appealing to the traditional Democratic constituencies of minorities and labor. If anything, The Right Staff clearly separates...