Word: spokes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Carter and Reagan, those presumably inexperienced outsiders, proved to be the most adept at the new campaigning. They did not discuss "issues" as journalists understand issues; they presented themselves. Both spoke softly and smiled often, giving a bland appearance to positions that were not in fact always so bland. Secure in their formulations, unfazable in their reiterations of them, they felt little need to provide new headlines that might get them into trouble. Since the candidates spoke their unchanging lines like actors, reporters found themselves analyzing their performances in box office terms. In fact, "electability" has become the final political...
...around, danced in the streets of the small town, hummed and clapped with a spiritual group that sang from the train platform and waited to greet Jimmy as he arrived at 1:30 on the morning after the Super Bowl. Then he got up on the train platform and spoke under a three-quarter moon...
...white segregationists, hardhats and students?are good people. Despite opponents' criticisms that he was two-faced, he almost invariably took the same stand before all audiences. He might fuzz his position on some issues, or omit Martin Luther King's name from a list of great Americans as he spoke before conservatives in Florida, but his basic themes were consistent. They were also upbeat and positive...
Edwin O. Reischauer, University Professor, spoke last summer to a group of 120 Japanese students whose tour was apparently organized by a Unification Church branch...
...Hemingway's impressions were shifting. Joyce had asked him to come along with him to dinner with Pound in Paris because Joyce was sure Pound was "mad", as Hemingway later wrote and he was "genuinely frightened of him." In the course of the dinner, according to Hemingway, Pound spoke "very erratically." Pound had always been a little eccentric. My favorite story about him has him at a dinner party with the literary effete of London. He was wearing his cape and single earing and when everybody sat down to dinner he refused to eat the regular course. Instead he began...