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...cock tail bashes the next, then weigh in with an exhaustive account of an unknown couple throwing a party to celebrate their divorce. The section, although sometimes self-indulgent and verbose, attracts much of the best prose in the Post, especially from Columnist Henry Mitchell, Feature Writer Myra MacPherson, Book Critic Jonathan Yardley and TV Critic Tom Shales. Nonetheless, the paper's culture coverage is spotty and seems driven more by the tastes of particular Post writers than by the interests of the reader...
...careful coverup of the war's financing; instead he marshals statements from Johnson advisers explaining how they "anguished" over the decisions to escalate the war. The chapter on Vietnam is particularly frustrating, for Miller presents a few fascinating insights and then fails to elaborate on them. Former aide Harry MacPherson tells how Johnson was completely oblivious to the demands and concerns of the militant left, how he didn't even understand them. According to MacPherson Johnson was always asking. "What in the world do they want...
Miller here presents the central tragedy of Johnson and the war--the master politician, after so many years of being attuned to the subtleties of electoral opinion, suddenly lost touch with the nation's growing disillusionment over the war. Miller throws the MacPherson interview out as if it were one more bit of gossip, just another interview, instead of using it as a focal point to organize some interpretation of Johnson's failures...
...presiding over the Post's eight editorial writers. No drastic shifts of policy are expected under Greenfield, who describes herself as a "moderate centrist liberal," similar to her predecessor in ideology. "She's rather conservative on fiscal issues but not on human rights," says Post Reporter Myra MacPherson, a good friend. Enthuses George Will, the paper's conservative columnist: "She has better judgment than anyone I've known in Washington...
While Coach Dick MacPherson's defensive backs have been a bit of a headache for him, the UMass running backs have been known to bring on a few migraines to opposing coaches. Led by inside man Charles Balboni and outside speedsters Billy Coleman and Dennis Dent, UMass stresses a ball-control of-fense. "Our number one concern is to stop UMass's running game. We must keep their offense off the field." Restic summarized...