Word: politicians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...JULIAN BOND for the first time when he spoke at the Harvard Business School last spring. At the time I felt something no other black politician had ever generated within me. Bond, conservatively clad in dark suit and tie, was the very picture of the black preppy. He walked casually to the podium exuding with every step the renowned "cool" that has long been his trademark. The cherubic Georgia peachy face elicited sighs from the women. His delivery was a crisp clear monotone, carefully measured and light on rhetoric. Here, I thought, was a no-nonsense radical black...
...than on what he expected to do. Yet there he was, the small-town boy from Whittier, so often in the past seeming insecure and introspective, so often tormented by self-proclaimed crises and ridiculed by scoffing critics, now vindicated by the only standard a democratic leader and professional politician appreciates: an overwhelming victory at the polls. He held unchallengeable control of the Executive Branch and had been handed a rare chance to shape the nation's future in his own fashion...
...Bowen, 54, looks like a movie version of a small-town general practition-er-which he is. But besides being a physician from Bremen, Ind., 20 miles from South Bend, Bowen is an astute politician who has been speaker of Indiana's G.O.P.-dominated house of representatives since 1967. Bowen and his courtly Democratic opponent, former (1961 -65) Governor Matthew E. Welsh, 60, both had the same prescription for Indiana: a reduction in property taxes, to be made possible by hikes in state sales and income taxes and increased state aid to local schools. The campaign thus focused...
...starred in his first Hollywood movie. In addition to his usual roles as upper-crusty Englishmen, he appeared as Sherlock Holmes in A Study in Scarlet (1933), a film for which he did his own screenplay, as Ebenezer Scrooge in A Christmas Carol (1938); and as the scheming politician in Affairs of State...
...biographies always show their subject in conflict with some external foe like the Boers or Lord Salisbury, but never in conflict with themselves. But to a Churchill freak like myself, any kind of visual stimuli is welcome which recalls a man whose abilities would put any post-war American politician to shame, particularly the current resident of the White House who is fond of comparing himself to Churchill when he isn't calling Nguyen Van Thieu the Churchill the Churchill of Asia...