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...compelled to question the answers he was getting with a little more sharpness than he usually does. Reagan, as he steps in or out of limousines, is also skilled at throwing out a one-line response to a question about the day's news, as if doing an unseen body of reporters a smiling favor...
Back in their Middle Western days, both men did radio broadcasts of away-from-home baseball games, when a minimal telegraphed strike-or-ball message had to be fleshed out into an imaginative description of a game unseen. For Reagan (called Dutch then, though unlike Cronkite he has no Dutch in him) it was good actor's training. Cronkite says with a grin: "If I'd been Dutch Cronkite and stayed with baseball, I might be President now." Instead, this week he is interviewing the President. For Cronkite those game broadcasts were valuable experience in ad-libbing...
...blue tie and bright smile. Is he too nice? The thought crosses one's mind in trying to reconcile the quiet warmth of the Oval Office and the harsh world outside. A clutch of handlers infiltrates the room, looking as if they are there to rescue him from unseen enemies or from himself. Their services are not needed...
Very few of the president's individual sentences carry any meaning. His syntax is jumbled, and his penchant for pronouns makes it difficult to follow the rhetorical conversations he constructs with unseen political opponents. He occasionally explains his vagueness with an unabasned admission of never having thought about a particular question before...
...only do creative people challenge basic assumptions, they discern previously unseen patterns. This, according to biochemist Calvin, is one of the most important abilities of the scientist. Gregor Mendel, cross-breeding peas in a monastery, noticed a pattern and extended the understanding of heredity. "It's no trick at all," Calvin notes, "to get the right answer when you have all the data. The real creative trick is to get the right answer when you have only half the data, and half of that is wrong...