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...campaign, the judgments are often buttressed by soundly reasoned arguments. Even on campuses, his personality won attention for ideas that were anathema. He holds doors open for strangers and carries suitcases for traveling companions. His brother, the contemporary conservative Voltaire, is high on him: "Jim's mild mannered, much less abrasive than I. And he has the happy faculty for not antagonizing people ever." Though his tone is less acerbic than William's, James' wit is an effective weapon. Describing deposed Senator Charles Goodell's switch from conservatism to liberal anti-Nixonism, James observed...
...election only to lose overwhelmingly to Democrat Dale Bumpers, a country lawyer from Charleston who turned back Orval Faubus' attempted comeback in the September primary. Rockefeller had been hamstrung for four years by a Democratic legislature; Bumpers promised to pull the state out of its mild stagnation. Crusty Rockefeller did himself no good by snapping back at a student who asked how much he was spending on reelection: "It's none of your damn business...
Many of us today nurse a mild pessimism. We can probably find satisfaction and stability within personal realms, and for dealing with society and polities one might cultivate Russell Baker's "ability to roll with a cruel joke and come back shrugging." For the time being...
...Mild Revolution...
...stores ablaze, and when fire equipment failed to appear, anonymous callers phoned police and fire officials, demanding to know, "When are you going to send in the pigs?" Says San Jose Police Chief Ray Blackmore, "You hate to use the word, but what's going on is a mild form of revolution...