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Eleanor McGovern works a different vein. Tiny though she is, her handclasp is as firm as a bricklayer's. There is no coyness at all in the level gaze of her round, china-blue eyes. She gives speeches everywhere, serious ones that she writes herself; and they are almost always new ones, an incredible practice in the jet-stop era of set speeches...
Intimate Behaviour is about body contact. Morris proposes that to consider the behavior of man as one among other animals will cast brilliant new light on what happens between people in a handclasp, a copulation, a consoling pat, an encounter group. Such a topic could be a romp and a tickle, and a loving touch; in fact, it's a skin game that's not even skin deep. The pri mal intimacy, Morris asserts, as if with profound originality, is the womb itself. Extracting the baby from there, he drags it through childhood's swaddlings and suckings...
...decision in advance, he notified President Johnson of his switch the night before the Senate showdown. He also tipped off Minority Leader Everett Dirksen, whose forces had become reasonably confident that they could scuttle Morrissey's nomination. After crossing the Senate floor to give Teddy an avuncular handclasp, old Ev rumbled: "It takes something for a young man to subdue his pride. It doesn't bother an old bastard like me. But in a young man it takes courage...
...chance that brought the the Holmes and Atwood families to my place at the same time. For a moment they glared at each other, then in the twinkling of an eye the two women were in each other's arms, sobbing heart-brokenly. The two men exchanged a silent handclasp...
Visitors crowd around Barry Goldwater's fourth-floor suite in the old Senate Office Building, hoping to earn a passing handclasp or a hastily scrawled autograph. During a recent trip to the Midwest, a worshipful couple approached Goldwater in Des Moines to say that even their two-year-old daughter had pledged her allegiance : "After the campaign, we asked her who she was for, and she said, 'Gold-wah-wah.' " On college campuses, where Goldwater buttons and sprouting Goldwater clubs symbolize a bold challenge to liberal orthodoxy, he is an authentic hero; Young Americans for Freedom...