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There is no venom, just passion, and throughout the week we remain friends. Like others, Bernie and Jack leave the convention when Maddox is nominated...
Police helicopters were not hovering over the schools, and the sharpshooter had long been removed from the roof of Charlestown High. Few parents were demonstrating or spewing venom at the cops. About one-third of the city's 75,000 public school children were being bused, but black and white kids were largely coexisting. The Boston schools thus opened without serious incident-in marked contrast to the year before...
...psychologizing conspicuously cloaked in a Kissingerian veil of scholarly objectivism. These may seem like unnecessarily--and for those who know me, uncharacteristically--bitter words. But I believe Moynihan was being either intellectually dishonest or arrogantly blind, two popular Cambridge mindsets that, once revealed, should be pilloried with all the venom of a congregation of offended Puritans. My anger is sharpened by the frightening prospect of Moynihan's taking a seat in the Senate, where he would have at least six years access to a national audience and higher governmental office. Imagine how the press will embrace this Harvard-professor-turned...
...Devils. Vice President Porter Canfield, who sorely wants to be Mr. President, seizes on the dullness in Washington as a campaign opportunity. The members of the press, he believes, are tired of tranquillity. "They need the saints and devils, the people-lovers and people-haters, the honey and the venom which are the raw materials of titillating stories." Contradicting official foreign policy, Canfield publicly urges that protective U.S. nuclear missiles be supplied to Israel...
More important than the book's moral--if it has one--is the presence of Agnew's old, anti-liberal venom. Though he has scrapped his polysyllabic, alliterative invectives, Agnew still displays contempt for students, activists, professors, welfare mothers and the rest of that crew. He displays his feelings about the media, and about Jews, with special gusto...