Word: inner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...readiness to fall in with the paranoid cult of the tough guy. The conspiracy of the press, the hostility of the Establishment, the flatulence of the Georgetown set were permanent features of Nixon's conversation, which one challenged at the cost of exclusion from the inner circle...
...originated with him. Fiercely proud, he could neither admit his dependence on approbation nor transcend it. Deeply insecure, he first acted as if fate had singled him out for rejection and then he contrived to make sure that his premonition came to pass. None of us really knew the inner man. More significant, each member of his entourage was acquainted with a slightly different Nixon subtly adjusted to the President's judgment of the aide...
...crudities. I resented being constantly manipulated. Yet I was deeply grateful for the opportunity he had given me to serve my country. Where outsiders saw a snarl, I saw the fear of rejection. What often appeared as deviousness was a means to preserve his options in the face of inner doubt about his own judgment. Few men so needed to be loved and were so shy about the grammar of love. Complexity was his defense, a sense of inadequacy his secret shame, until they became second nature and produced what he feared most...
Better to ignore such axioms and skip to the book's true bonuses-the monster monologues in which each little assailant reveals his policies and inner psyche, the cartooned transcription, music included, of the halftime show, the handy drawing of the sequence of bonus fruits, and the reiterated exhortations to "get out of your chair and pump a shiny new quarter into the closest machine." Frankly, if there's one passage worth marking for easy reference at the machine, between games, that basic bit of advice is it. I can't think of anything I'd rather have...
Pressing the case with unusual vigor, he puts out a reward and eventually gets some arrests. The two suspects are inner-city Blacks, one a tough hoooker, the other Lucas Ebry, her part time procurer, a piece of human flotsam Corde's zeal for prosecution draws fire from many quarters. The liberals in the suburbs think he may be a racist, the college administration thinks he may be a bit unbalanced. The college radicals, led by Corde's nephew. Mason are sure he is both...