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...there were occasional exercises in doctrinaire pedantry, there was always a balance of nicely aimed journalistic needling. Neither liberals nor middle-of-the-roaders were spared the Review's witty and often savage prose. There was also a leaven of practical politics. And it was hardly surprising that, when the intellectuals of conservatism spotted a proper champion, they announced his candidacy before he got around to doing it himself. In April 1963, National Review began its Barry Goldwater for President campaign...
...name. To Royster, the loss of his credit cards, shopping lists and drugstore prescriptions, not to mention $100 "secreted in the back of our wallet against such grave emergencies as running out of expense-account money in San Antonio or St. Paul." turned out to have a leaven of unexpected value. "I use all kinds of incidents that happen to me when I'm groping around for a way to make a point," said Royster. Last week he used his months-old misadventure to make the point that "if some of the economic theories bruited about today are correct...
...leaven its heavy political diet, the New Leader has enlarged its critical departments. And thanks to a sprucing-up by Designer Herb Lubalin, who overhauled McCall's and the Saturday Evening Post for fat fees but remade the New Leader for nothing, it now boasts eye-catching black-and-white covers and line drawings that few of its rivals can match...
This may account for the spongy patches that appear much too frequently in a novel that is otherwise exciting and knowledgeable. Writing of reform politicians in his last book, Author Dougherty gave his narrative that leaven of malice which is the salt of a certain kind of novel writing. In The Commissioner, the reader may feel malice-especially if he is a frequent traffic-ticketee-but the author clearly does not. Anthony Russell, the dour Irish moralist who is the police commissioner of the title, has Dougherty's worshipful approval. Russell's problems are believable-what...
...exchange, which would bring its practices closer into line with those of the well-policed New York Stock Exchange. Chief changes proposed: to increase the policing power of Amex's administration, decrease the number of "self-perpetuating" Amex governors who represent nobody but themselves, and to leaven the presently New York-dominated board with a number of out-of-town members...