Word: truman
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...Life in the 20th Century: Innocent Beginnings, 1917-1950 (Houghton Mifflin; 557 pages; $28.95), is a rich, spirited performance. Schlesinger moves energetically down the years, meeting everyone worth meeting, dispensing opinions (sometimes brilliant, sometimes merely partisan and captious, sometimes dead wrong, as when, early on, he pronounces Harry Truman to be a corrupt mediocrity). T.S. Eliot wrote, "The trilling wire in the blood sings beneath inveterate scars,/Appeasing long forgotten wars...
...With Florida dragging us down into electoral purgatory, the country doesn't seem to know what to do with itself. Pundits have run out of adjectives and family-friendly exclamations. Newspapers have gone to press declaring Bush the winner. (Doesn't anyone teach the lessons of "Dewey Defeats Truman" in journalism school anymore...
...days for absentee ballots, and at the moment Bush seems to be the guy with the best shot at an early, decisive win. The reason, of course, is that no one wants to be beaten on printing a winner, yet no one wants to run the next "Dewey Defeats Truman." Editors at, say, major weekly newsmagazines, will be in a tight spot come Wednesday, when presses are supposed to roll, if there's no decisive winner, especially if a winner could emerge before magazines land in subscribers' mailboxes...
Herbert Hoover and Harry S. Truman, on the other hand, are examples of the second model--"ambition to rise above modest origins," Brinkley says...
...them. But that won't last if Bush wins and the G.O.P. retains control of Congress. "Tom DeLay gets the joke," says a senior Bush adviser, referring to the House G.O.P.'s enforcer. "He knows that if Bush wins, he'll be sitting with his feet up on the Truman balcony [with the President]. He'll be the second most powerful Republican in Washington. Maybe the first...