Word: pettier
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...speech, the debates were more than a game. The added edge to reporters' questions came from a frustrated feeling that here at last the candidates should be pinned down. As John Chancellor said in a recent speech, "I don't think I've ever seen a pettier campaign, an emptier campaign, a campaign so lacking in a discussion of real issues." Even in the debates, the candidates had narrowed the range of things they intended to say no matter how a question was put; they were, until the last and best debate, often demeaningly petty; they felt...
...generally bright and attractive strain of the breed, engage in childish games of status and snubbing that would move even the most vulgar and climbing Washington hostess to disgust. For one who accepted a semester at Harvard as a kind of reverse sabbatical--an academic retreat from the pettier aspects of politics--it is all rather...