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That Reagan believed in his spiel, and in himself, more fully than do most politicians enhanced his credibility. Though he has been living like gentry for nearly 40 years, his geniality kept him in touch with the folks. "Having been a Roosevelt Democrat was an asset," Neustadt observes. "Though he turned far to the right, he never became a three-piece-suit, business Republican." Instead he became something new under the Republican sun, a smile-button conservative who persuaded voters that less taxation meant more prosperity, that less government facilitated the pursuit of happiness. And he taught the Washington establishment...
...testimony before the Iran-contra committees. As millions of Americans watched on television, North pleaded passionately for support of efforts to overthrow Nicaragua's Marxist Sandinista junta. He was even permitted to deliver his patented fund-raising pitch, minus the projection of 57 slides that usually accompany the spiel. Holding a photograph of a makeshift contra grave, North, his voice choking, told the legislators, "Gentlemen, we've got to offer them something more than the chance to die for their own country and the freedoms that we believe...
...TOUR GUIDE STARTS HER spiel in front of Mass Hall. "Part of this building contains freshmen rooms. Most freshmen live in Harvard Yard here, in entry-way groups of 15-20. Each group--and by the way, they're all co-ed--has its own proctor. After freshman year you'll live in one of the 12 residential Houses located down by the River or up by the old Radcliffe College...
...Walk is no mere docudrama or soapbox spiel. Like Shaw, who might have written this play, Blessing evokes his characters as men and not just mouthpieces. He is greatly aided by Director Des McAnuff's understated staging, fine performances from Josef Sommer as the Soviet and Kenneth Welsh as the American, and Bill Clarke's remarkable set: a soil-capped hillside, 29 tree trunks shooting straight up into the skies and, on the far back wall, a framed picture of yet another woods, a reminder that these conversations will echo around the world...
When, at the end of Jerry's spiel, I approached Gary, he assured me that he had enjoyed his first visit to Cambridge, although he wishes people up here would learn how to walk better. It seems he and Jerry were walking through the Square when a woman right in front of them slipped on the ice and fell. "Don't you feel foolish," Gary said, as he began helping the woman to her feet. But as he said this, he himself slipped and landed in a puddle of ice-cold water. "Not as foolish as you must feel...