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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Udall's constituency is made up of the kind of people who like to read about "the issues," and who like to have their questions about the safety of Red Dye No. 2 answered--middle- and upper middle-class liberals. Again, there is in Udall's campaign a sharp contrast with Jimmy Carter, who said last week that he would not detail many of his positions until after he received the nomination. That strategy may seem incredible to Udall's issueoriented liberals in Massachusetts, but Carter is sure it will help him to come out on top in New York...

Author: By David B. Hilder, | Title: Mo Udall in the Land of the Blind | 3/1/1976 | See Source »

...year may produce a constructive approach, after, of course, the Republican nomination is settled. The U.S. needs a policy that understands and accepts rather than fears Italian Communism. But if the U.S. fails to develop such a policy, the imminent ascension of the PC to power may precipitate a sharp collision between Italy...

Author: By Lorenzo Mariani, | Title: Italian Communism and U.S. Foreign Policy | 2/26/1976 | See Source »

...Gold, his first novel, which attracted little attention, he declared, "The failures of the last couple of years seem to have no effect on my spirit whatsoever. Eventually I will be so good I cannot be ignored." Only a few years before, he had written, "I wonder if that sharp agony of words will occur to me again. I wonder if I shall ever be drunken with rhythms anymore. I am twenty-six and I am not young anymore." The defiance disappeared with success, but the self-doubt nagged at him throughout his life. Twenty years later, at the height...

Author: By Stephen J. Chapman, | Title: Tools of Loneliness | 2/26/1976 | See Source »

...sharp contrast to his last Harvard appearance, Norman Mailer '43, describing himself as "virtually stone sober", gave a lecture last night entitled "From Poetry to Espionage" to a Sanders Theater crowd of about...

Author: By Jefferson M.flanders, | Title: Sober Mailer Cleans Up Act, Delivers Speech | 2/24/1976 | See Source »

...answer: several shades of green and red. The evasion: composed Reagan shoots back that he'd rather have a pilot flying his airplane drunk than high on grass because then he could tell that he was drunk and get him the hell out of there. Simple, sharp, insouciant, irrelevant, inconsistent...

Author: By Gregory F. Lawless, | Title: The Crowd Pleasers | 2/24/1976 | See Source »

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