Word: mansfields
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...Harvey C. Mansfield Jr. '53 called Carter "weak, vacillating, and incompetent" and said Reagan's victory indicates "the good sense of the American people...
...Mansfield, the year in which the nominating process worked most effectively was 1952, when Dwight Eisenhower and Adlai Stevenson were "two high-caliber candidates chosen by high-level party officials, not primaries." Wilson agrees, adding that it and the 1948 Truman-Dewey contest "were elections in which both parties picked their strongest candidates," thanks to the influence of party officials...
...Mansfield recommends requiring the media to give each candidate 60 to 90 seconds on the nightly news to elaborate on his ideas. "Reagan's one-liners are no accident," Mansfield notes. "The media requires a candidate to get across his message in one quotable line...
Still, most professors seem to agree with Mansfield that the present method of selecting presidents is inadequate. "All we've seen in recent years is change," he says. "One would hope we'd see change for the better--for a change."SAMUEL P. HUNTINGTON...
Viewers tuning in over the next month may think that they have entered a time warp, for the programs seem like instant artifacts of the '50s, when automobiles were first recognized as sex objects and a movie star like Jayne Mansfield seemed manufactured on the voyeur's assembly line. There is a difference though: most of the new fare pretends to an awareness of feminism. It's a Living (ABC, Thursdays at 9:30 p.m. E.S.T.) is set in a posh Los Angeles restaurant, where five spunky women try to keep a sense of humor as they...