Word: jacks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Associates and acquaintances of Regan predict, as Washington Lobbyist Jack Albertine puts it, that "he will be one of the strongest chiefs of staff in history. The White House will be a tight ship." That may be overstated, but it is clear that the collegial style of staff organization, in which Baker had ultimately emerged first among equals, had been breaking down. Meese had been sidetracked by his confirmation troubles and the investigations of his personal business dealings with friends who later gained federal jobs. Baker was burning out, and Deaver felt pinched on his Government salary...
Baker's job may be made easier by the mood in Congress, which seems receptive to some sort of flat tax. Each party has introduced its variant: a Republican version sponsored by Congressman Jack Kemp of New York and Senator Robert Kasten of Wisconsin, and a Democratic one by Senator Bill Bradley of New Jersey and Congressman Richard Gephardt of Missouri. The Baker-Regan duo may be able to provide the critical missing ingredient: enough muscle to persuade the President to provide personal, up-front leadership on the issue. "It will be a treeless plain with every special-interest group...
DeLillo has a knack for faculty follies. The school is well known for its department of Hitler studies, headed by Jack ("J.A.K.") Gladney, the novel's narrator. Students are also offered courses in popular culture, seminars in car crashes and cereal-box texts, a professor named Alfonse ("Fast Food") Stompanato and a teaching staff of New York emigres, "smart, thuggish, movie- mad, trivia-crazed . . . here to decipher the natural language of the culture, to make a formal method of the shiny pleasures they'd known in their Europe- shadowed childhoods...
...half sisters drift in and out of the household. One former wife is abroad with the CIA; another runs the business end of an ashram under the name Mother Devi. Talk is plentiful, but communication is illusive. "There must be something in family life that generates factual error," muses Jack. "Overcloseness, the noise and heat of being. Perhaps something even deeper, like the need to survive...
...Poor Jack Riley. The winningest active college hockey coach in the nation (512 victories) saw his Army team bellyflop in its first year in Division...