Word: politico
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...Auletta, former politico, now columnist for the New York Daily News and commentator for New York public television, wrote The Streets Were Paved With Gold to sort out how the self-proclaimed greatest city in the world self-destructed. His book is the best overview and analysis yet to appear of the four years of near bankruptcy and the circumstances that led to that debacle. Auletta's discussion avoids hackneyed liberal or conservative interpretations and provides convincing explanations of where the fault for New York's troubles lies...
...first vote of the evening, Artson won the presidency unopposed. Though this was not a major surprise, club members had expected at least token competition. Esty later told friends that he had not run because he had too many other activities and "did not enjoy being considered a politico" after the vice presidential controversy a few months before...
That's the kind of man Hanfstaengl was, a strange mix of Harvard old boy, genial party host and amateur politico...
...Jones became the late George Moscone's Housing Authority Commissioner in San Francisco two years ago because he could, on six hours' notice, produce two or three thousand obedient bodies to flesh out a campaign rally or go door-to-door with literature. His services apparently went to the politico willing to do the most in return. Jones could deliver, even if his political army was somehow reminiscent of Nixon's Youth in 1972, that wonderful army that would begin spontaneous cheering at 9:28 and spontaneously stop at 9:33, when the Trickster would spontaneously appear. If you didn...
...said during the question and answer period, "If we're not taken seriously by the Faculty and administration, then we're not being responsible to the people who elected us." Deutsch's other responses also seemed to place him to the right of Sanchez, who pleased the "Anti-Junior-Politico" sect by his response to a question as to whether he was a Government concentrator: "I came to Harvard and took Gov 30. Now I'm a history major." As in the race for chairman, the vote was close--this time 36 to 34--but Deutsch and the moderates prevailed...