Word: stay
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...potential nominees. For with Goldwater and Rockefeller bloodied, with Lodge's victory leaving many professional Republicans unimpressed, and with Nixon widely viewed as a last-resort nominee, Scranton seems increasingly appealing. He is genuinely reluctant to run, but his hard-pushing aides insist that his stay-out-of-it attitude adds up, at least for the present, to good tactics. They recall that he had to be drafted to run for Governor in 1962, accepted the nomination only after feuding branches of Pennsylvania's Republican Party agreed to work together under his leadership. If Scranton could accomplish...
...screen prospective Democratic job applicants, but his interviews often turned out to be diatribes. "Where were you," he would cry, "when we were fighting in West Virginia?" He was, first of all, a Bobby partisan. Once, when asked about his political future, Corbin said that he planned to "stay in Washington for 16 years, eight years with Jack and eight years with Bobby. And if Jack doesn't do better, we'll run Bobby...
...picture he offers of suburbia, science, politics, and other vulnerable aspects of contemporary life is a credibly dismal one, but is also disjointed and confused. While the Wapshots stay to one side of the picture, a number of characters (some of them quite minor) occupy, with their mutually irrelevant stories, a suprising amount of room. Six parts of The Wapshot Scandal originally appeared in The New Yorker, and signs of the independence that they once enjoyed prevent them from forming a coherent whole...
Boing! A big idea explodes in Sophia's pretty little skull: if she wants to stay in business, she had better stay with child. Next time the carabinieri come, Sophia once more proudly points-and the next time and the next. In approximately seven years she has seven babies, but before she can make it eight her husband (Marcello Mastroianni) collapses in sexhaustion. "Goodbye," she bellows scornfully at poor Marcello as she is led away to prison. "Goodbye, you fairy...
Some of my teeth were loosened, and my ears are still ringing. My pride and my head were sore for days, but at least I was able to stay out of the infirmary (rumor has it to be worse than the jail itself...