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...while talking a medium-left, aggressively Third World line; and one South American, the impressive Carlos Andres Perez of Venezuela. Perez heads one of the only two working democracies in South America (Colombia is the other), and he has oil, 2.4 million bbl. a day. He is not self-righteous about his country's democracy (he is too well aware of Venezuela's turbulent history), and he is too smart to seem to reach for any continental "leadership" role. He has large economic plans for Venezuela and many discontented citizens who wonder when all the oil money will...
...father's faults shine through despite himself. He is manipulative, self-righteous and overbearing. But it is Dylan's genius that we can understand, even sympathize with, the father's obviously genuine suffering...
...probably its most intellectual figure. One of the chief architects of the revolution, Gonçalves, 54, is described by his supporters as "austere and scholarly," a man passionately committed to the cause of social justice in Portugal. His detractors say he is volatile and emotionally unstable, a self-righteous, temperamental missionary who fervently believes he knows what is best for the Portuguese people -whether they like...
...daughter Julie Eisenhower as a consulting editor, hopes to use the borrowed documents for several articles on the Nixon presidency, including one feature by psychologists explaining the differences in public reaction to Watergate. Or, as Republican Publisher Cory Ser Vaas put it, "how some groups rise up in righteous wrath to join in a stone throwing and lynching while the other extreme prefers to see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil...
...florid and loquacious reminders that the academic specimens around here who wear ties and sit behind desks, or infest libraries, or say 'No Comment' just don't make for exciting copy. Kearns is emotional and plaintive, Goodwin is garrulous and familiar, and Glikes is intense and a little self-righteous. They all call me Phil, they all love to go off-the-record and whine about the other characters in this story, no matter how minor, and they all have an axe to grind. And they're all trying to manipulate me by pretending to be utterly candid...