Word: grasse
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...part, Grandmaison blamed his ouster on his colleagues' preference for the electronic media at the expense of an essential, if costly, grass-roots organization. Says he: "A lot of it had to do with my inability to persuade Bill White to make the necessary investment to build a field campaign." The two men began feuding in earnest last month, when White decided to close the California staff office and cut back funds in Wisconsin...
...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 the appearance of that admirable trait from its actual presence. And is widens the gap in the image of John...
Each of the two candidates lives with his large family in the rough Boston neighborhood where he was born and raised. Both started their political careers at the grass roots, and spent most of the past decade serving in the Massachusetts state legislature. And in this year's keenly contested election for mayor, the two men were politically the most leftward in the race, both running on a promise to shift money and urban-planning energies away from glamorous downtown and harbor-front development toward rebuilding Boston's neglected working-class neighborhoods. Their populist appeals proved so evenly...
...Nadine Gordimer. Günter Grass...
...tongue. But the award to Golding, a comfortable Englishman with no extreme political opinions, must give pause even to the staunchest defenders of the Nobel experiment. Can those charged with making the awards tell quality when they see it? Golding is fine, to be sure, but not before Gordimer, Grass and Greene. And, in alphabetical order, not before Kobo Abe, Jorge Luis Borges, Italo Calvino...