Word: sams
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...intermediate hurdles are hard to figure--if [Sam] Butler runs like he did in South Carolina over Spring vacation, he's a shoe-in," McCurdy said...
...Angelenos, the Bradley-Yorty runoff seems like a late show rerun. In the primary four years ago, Bradley, who is black, topped Yorty by an even greater margin (39% to 26%), but Mayor Sam won the runoff-after a campaign in which he injected the racial issue. This time Yorty vows that race will not be an issue but adds quickly: "Of course, Bradley will get the black-bloc vote." It will take much more than that to win; blacks make up only 18% of the electorate...
...city ombudsman to help cut bureaucratic red tape. Yorty is content with merely echoing that Los Angeles is the greatest, and that he is the man to keep it going and growing the way it has been. As an aide says: "There is a kind of comfort with Sam Yorty." But pre-primary polls showed that this year, in a two-man runoff, Bradley would win handily and that Yorty was the candidate whom the largest share of voters (33%) least preferred in the whole field. In the unpredictable world of Los Angeles politics, contradictions and surprises are commonplace...
...first is a recollection by Casey himself of his school and college years, the second a view of Casey's presidential campaign recorded by a priggish young Ivy League speechwriter who is both beguiled and disgusted by the candidate. The problem with this arrangement is that the speechwriter, Sam Perkins, is not really intelligent or substantial enough to be a good observer. The reader does not want Casey to be explained-at the core of every soul there is an irreducible question mark, and the only difference between politicians and other sinners is that the former's question...
...need not show that you mind/ When the others come in after hunting/ To gobble their muffins and eggs." The significance is that Casey, like Sheed himself, was crippled by polio as a boy. It seems to be this affliction that focuses his energy on politics, or, as Sam Perkins eventually sees it, on a compulsion to see healthy people brought to their knees. The novel's main concern, however, is the cloudy question of whether Casey is a very good man or a very bad one. He himself may not know and, since Perkins is so inadequate...