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Life as a baseball hater has not been easy Parties and, get-togethers often resolve around going to games and guzzling beer in the bleachers, and talk about baseball is often inescapable. As I sought to fall asleep the other night, for instance. I heard the guys through the fire door engaging in a spirited question-and-answer session...
...Fate of the Earth is occasionally repetitious, its prose sometimes convoluted, and in a few passages Schell gratuitously indulges in pet peeves and theories. For example, Schell-a confirmed Nixon hater whose last book, The Time of Illusion, was on Watergate-at one point suggests that Nixon could conceive of detente with the Soviet leaders partly because he and they shared a contempt for human rights. Not only is this charge dubious, to say the least, it is irrelevant to his thesis. Schell, like any writer, needs a good editor...
...when in 1975 a Berkeley political scientist named Michael Rogin published a book Fathers and Children: Andrew Jackson and the Subjugation of the American Indian. Rogin says he was writing under "the sway of the Viet Nam War." He sees Jackson as little more than a vicious Indian hater, "presiding over American expansion and Indian destruction," presaging general American attitudes toward "native peoples" everywhere. Andy Jackson, in fact, has been one of the most volatile of Presidents in his historical repute. The dominant historians of the 19th century, proper New Englanders and other Eastern gentry, sniffed...
...cruelest is to be published this week. Cat Hater's Handbook, subtitled The Ailurophobe's Delight (Avenel; $2.98) and illustrated by Tomi Ungerer, goes after cats as if they were creatures of the devil (some people think they are). Ailurophobe Author William Cole contends that cats are cruel, treacherous, unloving, smelly and parasitical. Cole assails the vaunted feline IQ, quoting a scientist at the American Museum of Natural History as saying that "a judgment from the literature would put the intelligence of cats below dogs and above rats." According to another researcher, the cat "is no philosopher...
After President Ford won, some of the Reagan supporters in the Oregon delegation said they would not go back the next night for the acceptance speech. "I didn't agree with that," says Evans. "I'm not a good hater." Yet when she was souvenir shopping to pass the time, she spotted her regional political director. Says she: "I went over to him and broke down and cried. It just happened." On the plane ride home, some of the Reagan people put on Ford buttons as a gesture of party unity, but, says Evans, "I just couldn...