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Such hopes, however, hang on the very tattered threads of the "coattail" theory. Revisionist political scientists, looking back over old elections with new eyes, now wonder if coattails ever were very important. They point out that in the past 24 years, three winning Presidents have actually run behind their party...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CAMPAIGN: The Season's Other Political Wars | 11/6/1972 | See Source »

After receiving this muffled cry of loss. Moos apparently decided to begin again, and her second foray starts: "As the vice-president of Harvard-Radcliffe Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) I would like to request the use of Harvard University facilities..." But the administration was not to be soothed...

Author: By Michael E. Kinsley, | Title: Dear Archie/Dear Katherine | 4/26/1972 | See Source »

The strongest stand on principle taken by Moos in the exchange seems to concern the superiority (presumably not genetic) of the Harvard-Radcliffe chapter to other SDS units around the country. In a letter dated February 8, she insists that the Boston-wide committee planning the convention is "headed by...

Author: By Michael E. Kinsley, | Title: Dear Archie/Dear Katherine | 4/26/1972 | See Source »

The sponsorship controversy is also responsible for the single most unusual inclusion in the collection--a 100 per cent scale model of an SDS leaflet, apparently sent by Epps to Moos (if you can imagine that) to demonstrate that advertising for the convention did not mention the Harvard chapter. This...

Author: By Michael E. Kinsley, | Title: Dear Archie/Dear Katherine | 4/26/1972 | See Source »

DESPITE THE VERY personal nature of this exchange--unsuccessfully masked by the metaphors of institution and regulation --the sensed presence of a third and fourth individual hovers over the first eight letters like the CRR photographer at an obstructive picket line, making itself felt explicitly only in the very final...

Author: By Michael E. Kinsley, | Title: Dear Archie/Dear Katherine | 4/26/1972 | See Source »

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