Word: hugh
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Bush campaign is under the near total control of former Governor Hugh Gregg, who ran Reagan's campaign four years ago. The "Ayatullah Gregg," as Bush staffers call him, brooks no interference as he keeps the candidate moving with the precision of Mussolini's trains. "We work Bush like a dog," admits Gregg, who allows the candidate 22 minutes for lunch on some days, six minutes for a sandwich on busy ones...
...Hampshire primary. He has a large and hardworking team there, but it might not be enough. In New Hampshire Carter has had an organized group led by J. Chris Brown (the head of Carter's successful '76 effort) working since last summer. He has the support of Governor Hugh Gallen and a majority of the state legislators. He has already pumped Federal grants into the state for highway and railway improvements. In addition, there are hints that the hostages might be returned in time for the New Hampshire race. If Carter can once again turn a primary into a referendum...
...course, Hugh is the champion that they are waiting for, but this certainty is a tribute to Le Guin's narrative savvy. Because she moves briskly without ever seeming to hurry, she makes Hugh's transformation from supermarket clerk to Arthurian knight-errant whisk by as inevitably as a theorem, as acceptably as a rabbit coming out of a hat. The author brandishes her magic instead of concealing it; when Hugh accepts his mission on behalf of the people of Mountain Town, he is given a standard-issue sword and sent out to slay a woefully worn...
...most effective prop in Le Guin's act is the quick, sharp description, the vivid detail that lights up its surroundings. The author catches one of Hugh's fellow checkers with a single sentence: "She had a lot of dark red hair, which she had recently got made into a fashionable mane of curls and tendrils that made her look twenty from behind and sixty face on." She gives Mountain Town a medieval European feel simply by looking down at one of its narrow lanes, "so steep that at intervals the street broke into steps, like a person...
...novel thus seems a little too modest for its own good. It concludes with a conventional clinch, boy and girl returning to a real world now much nicer than before, that undercuts the stern logic of initiation and quest. Like many would-be heroes challenged in first combat, Hugh is wounded; unlike them, he heals easily. Despite this tentativeness, The Beginning Place demonstrates what readers of Le Guin's highly praised science fiction have known for a long time: she is as good as any contemporary at creating worlds, imaginary or our own. -Paul Gray...