Word: things
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...were "nice" or "interesting" people, "people like us." But it really doesn't matter if a President is a bore, or if he sleeps around, or if his children all like him. The President is not our friend. He is both our leader and our servant, and the only thing that matters is his effectiveness in the public interest...
...debate's intellectual challenge could be as easily supplied by any reporter with a tough question, and it should be, every day. Few things this year upset me more than when newspapers gave their campaign coverage to TV or entertainment critics, who reviewed the performances of presidential nominees a paragraph above those of ABC sitcom actors. The saddest thing of all is that these entertainment reviews were more insightful than the political commentary...
...easy. And the popular thing ("Let's stick it to IBM, they can afford it!") is not always the smart thing (taking money from IBM for Congress to spend presumes Congress can spend it more effectively than IBM). What's needed is tax hikes that, first, would actually raise more revenue, and, second, are so fair and just and sensible they virtually scream to be introduced...
...party's leading populists. "By God, it's awful we could not beat George Bush and Dan Quayle. They were perfect for us." This widespread view stems directly from the party's consistent strength at all other levels of government. As political scientist Nelson Polsby puts it, "The only thing wrong with the Democratic Party is that they can't elect a President. Everything else they're doing is right. The Senate, the House, party ID -- they're all fine...
...High Road seems on the verge of becoming a distaff Death in Venice, with another cerebral outsider succumbing to forbidden passion for an enchanting youth. But O'Brien does not bring to this situation any of the doomed morbidity that hovers over Thomas Mann's tale. For one thing, Anna is much too brisk and sensible to believe herself trapped by any fate. And the physical world of the Spanish seacoast is too astonishing to allow prolonged brooding. Remembering misty Ireland and rainy London, Anna is constantly dazzled by the light: "The sun blazed and emphasized everything, sugar crumbs...