Word: losers
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What kept the Social Democrats upright more than anything else was Russia's invasion of Czechoslovakia, which encouraged countless voters to stick with a known quantity. The chief loser was Sweden's tiny Communist Party, which normally inherits any protest votes from the Social Democrats' left. This time it was the Communists who were on the wrong end of the protest vote. Communist Leader Carl-Henrik Hermansson roundly denounced the Soviet invasion and was denounced by Moscow radio in turn as "the chatterbox husband of a millionairess"-his wife is the daughter of a Göteborg...
...Loser's Cause. In the death house of the New Jersey state prison in Trenton, Smith, a high school dropout, has ambitiously educated himself. An enrollee in many college correspondence courses, he also subscribes to publications as diverse as National Review and the Peking Review. He is obviously intelligent, and his prose, though sometimes wooden, is sturdy. What his brief suffers from most is-as he himself says-the fact that "I am by nature a transcendentally unemotional, matter-of-fact individual, the antithesis of what a man testifying in his own behalf, with his life at stake, should...
...century ago, Sam Tilden made light of his electoral loss by saying: "I shall receive from posterity the credit of having been elected to the highest position in the gift of the people, without any of the cares and responsibilities of the office." It is doubtful if a loser in one of today's superheated campaigns would be so graceful-or indeed whether a minority President like Adams or Hayes could deal with Congress or the world on so minuscule a mandate. Both Harry Truman in 1948 (with 49.6% of the popular vote) and John Kennedy...
Perhaps the worst aspect of CBW is the easy availability of its weapons. While the nuclear club remains relatively exclusive, nuclear arms can continue to provide a built-in deterrent-a balance of terror that restrains nuclear powers from starting a war in which winner and loser alike will figuratively glow in the dark. Members of the CBW club may soon multiply. And their very number could vastly increase the possibility that one of them could be tempted to exercise CBW's awful power...
...attempted to write a severe anti-novel. Not surprisingly, the result is less than successful. Henry Worthington is like most Cozzens heroes. Society judges him a winner, but on the basis of his own secretly harbored prima facie evidence he wonders if he just might not be a loser after all. A successful management consultant of "sixty odd," Worthington decides with metaphorical directness to examine the management -and meaning-of his own life. His method, however, is indirect and discursive, dicey and erratic...