Word: skillfulness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...days is to assume that it does not matter what kind of book you write for money. Yet The Company, for all its diverting tidbits, should not be accepted (or dismissed) as good, dirty fun. In it, using a mask of fiction, the author continues with great tenacity and skill a campaign begun by the White House to vilify past Presidents and, indeed, American political institutions, so that Richard Nixon's behavior would seem less reprehensible by contrast. With that in view Nixon tried to declassify material to blacken Kennedy and Johnson...
Carter in a big way and Reagan with increasing skill seem to have found a means to ride the currents running in the land. To be sure, the Reagan surge has largely taken place on congenial, conservative territory. Yet in the May 1 Texas primary, his smashing shutout of Ford (96 delegates to 0) defied any simple ideological analysis. Normally, Ford should have been able to win at least some of the state's more liberal districts in Dallas and Austin. Reagan's three victories last week were also impressive. Summaries...
...Crimson season was not a disappointing one to Coach Tim Taylor, who will leave Harvard this year to coach hockey at Yale. "I don't think the individual matches were indicative of our skill. The players have a lot on their minds now and often don't have all the free time needed," Taylor said after yesterday's match...
...said that he admired Truman's honesty, vision in foreign policy and "closeness with the American people." He also has a high regard for John Kennedy as a "much more inspirational President" than Truman, and for Lyndon Johnson's deep concern for the poor and the weak and his skill in pushing legislation through Congress. He spoke of Winston Churchill as the pre-eminent leader of our time, of Charles de Gaulle as uniquely expressing "the ideals and hopes and pride of the French," and of Mohandas Gandhi as the embodiment of "quiet courage...
...main speakers at this week's Book Affair are people who have mastered the knack of spreading their names. Whether this has to do with their skill with words is a moot point. In any case, once they've lured you over to Mem Hall, you're bound to notice a few of the 180-odd small publications from around the country on display...