Word: reston
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...Peter Plays Right Wing") or little leaguers in Williamstown ("A World Series for Johnny"). Though more serious than those efforts, True Bearing is essentially a novelized version of the kind of aspiring journalist who spent his childhood years listening to all-news radio, idolizing Woodward and Bernstein and "Scotty" Reston instead of Mays and Yastrzemski, and waiting up all night to catch the next morning's Times...
...York Times Columnist James Reston called Carter's campaign "vicious and personal," and added that "even if he wins, it will be difficult for him to regain the support he needs to govern." Said an editorial in the Washington Post: "Jimmy Carter is campaigning like a politician gone haywire . . . Where is the President?" Commented the Boston Globe: "The President seems bent on discarding his last ace, his reputation as a decent and compassionate...
Lippmann helped draft the Lend-Lease Act. He talked World War I Hero John Pershing, then 80, into endorsing Roosevelt's destroyer deal with Britain, helped write Pershing's speech, then in print praised it. Similarly he and his colleague James Reston flattered the vain old Republican isolationist Arthur Vandenberg into supporting the United Nations in 1945, and wrote the turn-around speech that Vandenberg read to the Senate. And, of course, praised...
...press's lack of enthusiasm for either Reagan or Carter is matched by a decline in its fascination with John Anderson. He no longer inspires such rhapsodies as James Reston's discovery last February of a new Adlai Stevenson, "burdened by some personal characteristics that are now out of style in American politics: moderation, intelligence, experience...
...short, Easyriders is consistently accessible. Another passage from the magazine's James Reston, Spider: "I'm about to pay my taxes, folks, so I'll strap another one on ya. The Feds just gave a professor $100,000 to figure out how pigeons remember things. Shit, I've always wanted to know that--haven...