Word: paces
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...found. But you can almost forgive Bulliet's condescension--he is, after all, a professor, who teaches Middle East history at Columbia. Moreover, he weaves such an engaging tale of espionage and international whoop-dee-do that the actual details aren't quite as important as the frantic pace and the heart-in-your-throat situations...
...politics is an endurance test not only for presidential candidates but for those who report on them. The pace in this year's race for the Democratic nomination has been especially grueling, as we show in our Nation story. The sort of 18-hour day, for example, in which Candidate Gary Hart made nine stops in seven cities in four states has not been uncommon. For correspondents, the problems seem to stretch unendingly: the usually mediocre, sometimes terrible food; fitful and minimal sleep; the struggle for clean clothes (allnight laundromats are indispensable); and the tedium of long waits...
...Jesse Jackson, the youngest of them, is exhausted. "He doesn't sleep," jokes a Jackson aide. "He just faints a while." Hart, 47, Mondale, 56, and Jackson, 42, have been on the road for more than a year. Since January they have had to go at a ferocious pace, running an electoral marathon at sprinters' speeds. It shows. The survivors often look drawn and ashen, and all have made blunders because of fatigue. Indeed, the intensity of this year's primary rigors, physical and emotional, may be unprecedented. Says one drained journalist, a veteran who is trooping...
...remain intellectually focused but not rigid, are at least as burdensome. Frequent high-stakes televised debates (eight so far) have been an extra drain on emotional resources. "The debates are particularly difficult," says Oliver ("Pudge") Henkel, Hart's campaign manager. "It's a major change of pace from the rest of the campaign. It is so intense that there's invariably a letdown afterward...
Also, there's an Institute of Politics forum on Tuesday at 8 p.m. entitled "Remembering Harry Truman," with panel members Clark Gifford (Truman's legal advisor). David McCullough (Truman's biographer), and Frank Pace (Truman's Secretary of the Army Meanwhile. EI Salvadorian presidential candidates Jose Napoleon Duarte has had to cancel his Law School appearance...