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...country's politicians, Whitlam sometimes strikes down-to-earth Aussies as being too smooth by half. One of his own party members complains that he is a "distinctly middle-class intellectual with both a prickly personality and a captious turn of mind." He also has a renowned temper. In Parliament he once dumped a glass of water on a member of the Cabinet...
Drained. Burger "has good sense of pace," says one of his colleagues. The Chief knows when to curtail drifting discussion and when to call a temper-cooling coffee break. But there are inevitable undercurrents of tension on the ideologically split court. While one Justice speaks of another as "a great storyteller, quick with very funny stories about cases he's tried," still another grouses that the conferences occasionally get bogged down with "war stories about famous cases I have judged." The occasional jokes that lighten the sessions tend to be a bit lawyerly. "For instance," explains a Justice, "somebody...
...interview two weeks ago, Harrison acknowledged that he has reassessed his coaching philosophy over the past year. He said that he had a number of serious personal problems during last season which made it difficult to control his often volatile temper...
Anomaly. The question of a mandate will persist. Will the election of 1972 be remembered as an extravagant anomaly, an essentially reluctant landslide? McGovern, who had profoundly misread the temper of the American people, seized what is still the majority party and drove millions of Democrats, many of them unwillingly, to Nixon. But many are uneasy there as well, and it is not likely that they will find a permanent home there. Thus Nixon's mandate is indeed major, but, like all democratic mandates, conditional. He has temporarily taken the center away from the Democrats, and it remains...
...lowest common denominator is often local prejudice. Even many liberals, on the other hand, have been shaken in their traditional faith in federal intervention as an effective agent in dealing with a range of social problems, and Nixon's approach evidently is in tune with the majority's present temper...