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...child in Cambridge, Mass., Martha Duffy used to satisfy her thirst for Mozart and Verdi by listening each Saturday afternoon to Texaco's Metropolitan Opera radio broadcast. She was usually well prepared. The previous week, she and her sister would borrow the score of the upcoming performance from the local library and, to her sister's piano accompaniment, sing the entire opera together. Other afternoons, she often went to Boston's Fenway Park where she bought a grandstand seat in leftfield. Duffy remembers: "I was a Red Sox fan, and my first crush was on Ted Williams...
...satiated with dust, our thirst quenched with tears...
...Everett Ladd, a visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford, believes if Adlai Stevenson and Dwight Eisenhower were running this year, the vote would be higher by at least 10%. Walter Burnham agrees. He contends that the two candidates have not been up to the country's thirst for leadership. He argues that the Democrats were in the best position by far to match that need, but Carter blew his natural advantage. Reaching back to Abraham Lincoln to make his point, Burnham said: "Lincoln also ran a campaign on trust and moral uplift. But he tied...
...garbage." Within a few years, "I knew I would rather die brutally, prematurely, than lead the life my husband would have preferred for me." Eventually, in the throes of what an earlier age might have charitably called cabin fever, she runs through the forest clutching leaves, moaning with thirst, and finally plunges into a lily-filled river seeking death and freedom...
Fallows has other reasons for supporting Carter. He believes the Georgian has "tapped, not in a cynical way but in a sincere way," the thirst of the electorate for a return to the "basic verities," for "tremendous change and...(at the same time) tremendous stability." Fallows argues further that the Democrat is "one of the most profoundly anti-elitist candidates to appear" on the American political scene this year. But Fallows readily admits he doesn't believe Carter is the "messiah." He says he recognizes "the shortcomings in him. There's a lot of stuff in what he says that...