Word: reasonableness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Delgado had been arrested at least eleven times for petty crimes and hospitalized as a mental patient seven times. Once he had smashed a chalice during a service at St. Patrick's Cathedral. Twice in the past six months, city psychiatrists had examined him and failed to discover any reason not to return him to the streets...
...reason for the fascination with this rather strange televised encounter is the scripted and stage-managed nature of the race thus far. On the advice of their handlers, the two candidates have largely avoided situations that carried the slightest semblance of spontaneity. During the days preceding the debate, the handlers coached their men assiduously to ensure that no unscripted statement, answer or even gesture would occur in front of television viewers. Nevertheless, there is a limit to what campaign managers can control, and the debate was a rare chance for the public to see Bush and Dukakis react entirely...
Lester P. Lee, Jr., a former City Council candidate now advising Thompson on his campaign, said Thompson would accept a challenge from a Republican candidate, but since Thompson had won the Democratic Primary there was no reason to debate Graham. No Republicans ran for the seat in the primary, and none have emerged in the past two weeks...
Though reading Monroe's excellent personal introduction, in which he recounts his experiences of growing up and his difficult, still incomplete transition from a Black world to a white one, makes one wonder if talent was really the sole reason Goldman authored Brothers...
...pundits can dub the Harvard faculty the Dukakis mafia, then they may have reason to call Harvard students the candidate's henchmen...