Word: neither
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sensitive as I am and don't mind lines such as "He kissed her squarely on the lips. Not enough. He gave her the tongue . . ." you will probably find it hard to get a picture in your mind of either one of the principal characters, because neither of them is written with consistency or fullness. And there is no feeling at all in the story. This is a serious thing to lack, even when a story is humorous, which is supposed to be the case with "One Less Vote For Wallace...
There was no gunplay. Pasos did not make his speech; instead, he went to jail for three weeks. But neither then nor later did Tacho touch the textile mill and other businesses that made Pasos wealthy. General Pasos still hangs around Managua, in halfhearted opposition to Somoza-but Tacho is in wholehearted control...
Littered over the island are many "cultural" objects. There are caves full of bones and weird mural paintings. There are stones carved with phallic symbols and strange pictures (men with wings and birds' feet). Neither the living natives nor modern scholars can read the tantalizing hieroglyphics that remain, but Dr. Wolff makes a desperate attempt. Some of the symbols, he thinks, had their origin in India, 11,000 miles away, more than 5,000 years...
...also had its doldrums. And, because it was the acknowledged leader in TV reporting, it had its neck way out. Overly ballyhooed, it flashed its "exclusive" sign at times to herald an interview that proved neither exclusive nor very exciting. LIFE and NBC representatives appeared almost always in pairs, though often there obviously was not even enough work for one man. And in the end, its commentators stayed out on the Dewey limb long after other stations had shinnied down to the ground...
...fashioned legwork-the kind I hadn't done-was still the most important part of our press structure. I think that a good deal of our press reporting has strictly gone to hell; there is too much thumbsucking, too little pavement-pounding . . . From now on, Indiana is neither G.O.P. nor Democratic to me. I know I'll have to dig to find out. It has been a wonderful lesson to those newspapermen who still have enough sense left to know that they got a lesson the hard way, and that they'd better brush up again...