Word: populars
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...when it was all over, Reagan-virtually alone-had collected several hundred thousand more votes than the President in contested primaries. The popular explanation was that opponent Ford was dull. But Reagan on his own had surely touched a public nerve. Now, trailing Ford in delegates, he was fighting-in his low-key way-to keep the race alive...
Senator John Glenn's fortunes apparently were the next to rise, especially after a survey by Carter Pollster Pat Caddell showed him and Maine's Muskie to be the most popular choices on one list of 14 possible candidates. Glenn flew to Plains, Ga., where he got along famously with Carter's family (he was eight-year-old Amy's favorite). But his relative inexperience (18 months in the Senate) and seeming malleability weighed against...
...JIMMY CARTER: He is very bright. He has done a lot of work, and I like the way he attacks problems. Most politicians, I regret to say, begin with polls and then back into a solution after they've analyzed what may be popular, and avoid what is unpopular. At least, in our discussions we talked about problems first on their own merit ... One thing that appeals to Democrats-he's shown a lot of courage on civil rights. Here's a man who looks honest, looks decent, looks like he can manage, looks like...
...known as the Plimpton Ploy: swimming against Johnny Weissmuller, boxing a round with Jack Dempsey ("I knew all there was to know about being hit"). Gallico quit the News in 1936 and wrote Farewell to Sport, the first of 41 books, many of them bestsellers. Among his most popular novels: The Snow Goose (1941), Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris (1958), The Poseidon Adventure...
...democracies like the United States, but for its condescension, alarmism and hack psychologizing conspicuously cloaked in a Kissingerian veil of scholarly objectivism. These may seem like unnecessarily--and for those who know me, uncharacteristically--bitter words. But I believe Moynihan was being either intellectually dishonest or arrogantly blind, two popular Cambridge mindsets that, once revealed, should be pilloried with all the venom of a congregation of offended Puritans. My anger is sharpened by the frightening prospect of Moynihan's taking a seat in the Senate, where he would have at least six years access to a national audience and higher...