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...pleasant man might have been talking across the backyard fence or maybe chatting in the kitchen with the kids. He seemed relaxed and natural, but he was addressing millions of viewers and making the most important-and very likely the best-speech of his career. Ronald Reagan masterlily delivered his acceptance address, an event that may turn out to be pivotal to his campaign. He performed with a skill that surprised even his admirers and dismayed his foes, smoothly repackaging phrases and lines from speeches he has been making for months. In text and delivery, he accomplished what...
...opposing party or the third party candidate--especially, if applicable, at the incumbent--wave hands in frenetic form, pound the microphone with Churchillian grandeur to show strength, ask rhetorical questions the answers to which are either a resounding "No" or the name of the nominee, and you get a pleasant and predictable melange, certain to excite and incite the conventioneers--and to bore everyone else...
Mike Reagan was adopted when he was just a few days old, because, according to family legend, Maureen wanted a brother (Jane Wyman had been advised by her doctor to have no more children). Mike too has pleasant memories of his father's ranch. "He sure can talk," says Mike. "You ask him what time it is, and he tells you how to make a watch." But, he adds, "we always felt that we were sharing him with a lot of others. We were basically raised by nannies and maids...
...links, he has lately developed a nasty slice and the habit of blacking out and falling down. The problem is neurological, and something more. Percy writes: "There ... stands Will Barrett on the edge of a gorge in old Carolina, a talented agreeable wealthy man living in as pleasant an environment as one can imagine and yet who is thinking of putting a bullet in his brain...
...will then retire to the newfangled splendors of Carolina and "begin a new life in his garden home in Emerald Isle Estates, watch Monday-night football, do isometrics in the family room, drive to Highlands with his wife to attend Miami-style auctions." This milieu is perfect for pleasant shallow people like the young jumpsuited minister who invites Will to an ecumenical religious retreat: "A weekend with God in a wonderful setting ... That's the bottom line...