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...frontespiece of the Spectator, for example, is a column written by editor R. Emmett Tyrell and titled "The Continuing Crisis," which diagnoses the grave illnesses of America by pointing to symptoms. This month, Tyrell dislikes Bill Walton ("tiresome proponent of New Age claptrap," "Marxist-Leninist thumper for health food"), liberation theologists, and the Washington press corps (who need a "manual on the fundamentals of courtesy"). There are signs of recovery, though; President Reagan has restored "dignity to realms where there recently had been mawkishness and amateurism unsurpassed in American history," and Secretary of State Alexander Haig has refused Soviet ambassador...
...chests are almost the same: $2.35 million for Dixon and $2 million for O'Neal. Although O'Neal has closed the gap with his opponent in the polls, from 18 points in June to 12 points by mid-September, most bets in Illinois are still on the thumper...
...distaste for fundraising, friends and colleagues say, is rooted in his essential modesty. "Bok is not a table-thumper," says John Blum '57, a former member of the Corporation, "he is a very diffident man." The first president of Harvard to forsake the official residence--Bok and his family live away from campus in Elmwood, a colonial house built in 1767 as a hospital for George Washington's troops and later used as the official resident of the dean of the Faculty--Bok does not enjoy the public exposure that comes with his office. As a close friend puts...
...would the G.O.P. want to field its aging front runner, 68-year-old Ronald Reagan, against a much younger, dynamic Senator? At the moment, many party pros say no. That answer would seem to give an advantage to John Connally, 62, who is Kennedy's equal as a tub thumper. If Connally turns out to be unacceptable to rank-and-file Republicans, they might turn either to Howard Baker or George Bush. Both lack flair as campaigners, but they have long experience in Washington, they have no scandal in their backgrounds and their views are only moderately conservative...
...Thumper--Oxford Ale House...