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...poetic justice," Smith said, "that the senior should score the winning basket...
Caro's treatment of this battle achieves poetic intensity. Stevenson ran the way he always had, driving into small towns, talking and listening to those who happened to gather. Johnson ran for his life, leapfrogging about in a helicopter (the "Flying Windmill"), blanketing the state with radio ads around the clock and throwing money everywhere. Despite all these frenzied efforts, initial returns showed Stevenson the winner. But L.B.J.'s campaign had not ended. Caro demonstrates how the Johnson organization, with the knowledge of the candidate, proceeded to steal the election. Late reports from southern counties in L.B.J.'s pocket continued...
Leland writes well. His prose, if occasionally too explicit, flows easily. We never find ourselves trudging through sentences or checking for antecedents, and we are even blessed by a few poetic passages. His desciption of an elderly patient's doctor is especially lyrical: "...he was just as she imagined Mrs. Voxburg's doctor would be, as blasted of history as Mrs. Voxburg herself, readable only in the broadest terms...
That ride may be the magic elixir. Even in his contemporary office, surrounded by two chunks of the Berlin Wall and power photographs, Reagan gets almost poetic when he talks about rising in the bright mountain sunlight with Nancy...
...greatest thinker the poor and oppressed of the industrial world ever had on their side: "Words ought to be a little wild, for they are an assault of thought upon the unthinking. But when the seats of power and authority have been attained, there should be no more poetic license. When a doctrinaire proceeds to action, he must, so to speak, forget his doctrine. For those who in action remember the letter will probably lose what they are seeking." Daniel L. Alexander...