Word: rememberers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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As the years passed, he would speak more warmly about Kennedy, and remember even more ties than there were. He now answers "Kennedy" when asked who most drew him toward politics -- an answer that intrigues Martin Linsky, a Brookliner who went on, like Dukakis, to the state legislature and Harvard...
Dukakis, obviously, is no Hippolytus. He has given his hostage to the gods of love in Kitty. He can be moved by the plight of others; he can faint at the bloody reality of pain, be disarmed at the sight of real Athenians, waver when his friend misleads him about...
On money matters, Dukakis likes to remember the way his father always urged on him "Oikonomia! Oikonomia!" That applies to more than the price of a non- Filene's suit. The Greek ideal of oikonomia (literally, house management) is the optimum disposal of one's resources. Bush's claim that...
Bentsen has never been a stirring speaker, and in his 1976 try at the presidency he had difficulty rousing crowds. In one campaign stop at the rodeo - grounds in Sikeston, Mo., even Minnie Pearl from the Grand Ole Opry could not overcome the lack of excitement generated by a Bentsen...
Travis took up the guitar in a serious way instead ("I'm still not a great player, though. I just mainly play rhythm"). Hatcher remembers that he was "very, very shy. He would hardly talk to me, even after I hired him." He didn't have much to talk about...