Word: politicians
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...term, at least, the President will be able to control the issue and remain "on a roll" politically. His approval rating has risen from 44% to 55% since January, according to Presidential Pollster Richard Wirthlin. Simply by showing his concern, Reagan has proved once again his adroitness as a politician. "Whether the President does anything is not relevant," says one adviser in a fit of candor...
While a white student journalist or student politician can choose between a relatively small number of groups, a Black undergraduate finds in addition three essentially political groups, three performance groups, a science club and a literary magazine. Leaders of these organizations say that membership in these groups overlap and that many participants involve themselves in mainstream groups as well. But they describe the selection of extracurricular involvement as a particularly unique experience for Blacks, who have so many alternatives and often feel that their choice of involvement outside the classroom carries political overtones...
...revving up began on ABC's highly successful This Week with David Brinkley, where Sam Donaldson is teamed with Columnist George F. Will, whom Brinkley describes as "an Encyclopaedia Britannica on wheels." Side by side, they take turns at boring in on a guest. Only a politician with aplomb and a fast tongue can escape being overwhelmed by this pair, even though, as the old saying goes, a fool can ask ten questions while a wise man answers one. Sometimes an affable Brinkley eases up their questioning: "We've become aware of very bad public reaction...
...deaths have never been tallied. The planners of this barbarism were not peasants; they were teachers, economists and bureaucrats who had studied in France. Observes Johnson: "Like Lenin, they were pure intellectuals. They epitomized the great destructive force of the 20th century: the religious fanatic reincarnated as professional politician...
Maas offers no happy fadeout with right restored and virtue intact. Marie Ragghianti today is a political pariah; no politician wants to hire the woman who brought down a Governor. She is a teacher of criminology at a Florida community college, consoling herself with the meditations of a stoic: "Have I done something for the general interest? Well, then, I have had my reward." Maas' forensic style and vigorous tempo are ideally suited to Marie's story. The author makes clear that his knowledge of feminine determination is derived from experience. His late wife, Audrey Gellen Maas...