Word: reads
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...there is method to Babbit's apparent madness. He is in the process of honing a straight-talking image, something sure to play well after eight years of Reagan and the recent campaign of George "Read My Lips" Bush and his spate of media advisers. (This plain campaign style could help Rudy Giuliani, the well-known former U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, become the city's next mayor...
...Babbit in amazement. His basic ideals about his nation had been shattered. The solution for the father-son duo was to return to those basic ideas, in the form of the Lincoln Memorial, which Babbit explained in Stewartesque cadence, "isn't a memorial, it's a shrine." They read the Gettysburg Address together, and psychically restored by the words of a president who had lost many elections before the final triumph, the elder Babbit went off to do political battle...
...rare times he doesn't criticize Goode, Rizzo takes aim at some of the other liberals he so dislikes. He interviewed author Leo Damore about his book on Senator Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.) and Chappaquiddick and afterwards called the work "one of the best books I ever read." One can only imagine what other good literature Rizzo has taken in lately...
...halftime, the scoreboard read 8-3. Vermont never came close again, despite enjoying 11 man-up situations in the game, assisted by Crimson carelessness and the referees' generous whistle-blowing...
...that we are no longer an urban university, but one which has allowed there to grow up around itself a kind of inner-city suburb with a single kind of life style, carried on by professors, students, psychiatrists, and the executives of electronics and consulting firms," the Wilson report read...