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Empty seats were conspicuous in the back of the room. Questioning was low-key and reserved. Marty Peretz, one of the organizers of the Harvard teach-in, talked quietly with Mass Pax leader Jerome Grossman about Sunday night's fire at the Civil Liberties legal aid office...
McGovern's candidacy must be rated as a brash swim against a powerful tide. Aside from Muskie's numerous advantages-including national recognition and a mid-party stance-there are other problems for the shy-looking plainsman. What his admirers regard as a pleasing, low-key image comes across to others as a lack of dynamism and popular appeal that could be fatal. His showing in polls last year was poor. A move by Ted Kennedy would probably eclipse him. Then there are the other Senate prospects: Humphrey, Birch Bayh, Henry Jackson and Harold Hughes, who form...
Hamburg is known at Stanford as a "low-key type." He is a proven scholar, having served as director of the Michael Reese Hospital in Chicago before taking his present post at Stanford...
Miss Gordimer, a South African noted for skillful short stories and liberal positions, lays out Bray's quiet private life and the dark continent's social issues in more than ample detail. Her principal problem, never really overcome, is how to join a low-key character to high-voltage politics without diminishing interest in either. Bray is too often a laboriously illustrated abstraction of honor and decency whom Miss Gordimer attempts to quicken with some peculiarly imprecise and subjective imagery...
...most moving political events since the death of Robert Kennedy. More important, it shows that Muskie recognizes the value of television, which Nixon used so well in 1968 but seemed to have forgotten in 1970. Nixon's victory in 1968 can be attributed to a low-key campaign which convinced people that he could "bring us together." On the night of November 3 he showed that this...