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This is the "Rose Garden strategy" that began almost accidentally as an outgrowth of Carter's preoccupation with the Iranian seizure of 50 American hostages. Then, as the polls showed Americans rallying around their President, he moved with vigor and anger to condemn the Soviet Union for its invasion of Afghanistan, and he demanded that the Soviets be punished for it. Victory followed victory in the primary election campaign, and the Rose Garden strategy became a way of life. But last week a series of blunders and setbacks revealed the isolated President to be somehow out of touch with...
...lost his old enthusiasm?because of his age, some voters uncharitably suspected?and the strategy collapsed in the Jan. 21 Iowa caucuses. Out of that defeat charged the Reagan of yore, campaigning full time across New Hampshire and banging away again at all his old targets with stimulating vigor: "There is enough fat in the Federal Government that if you rendered it, there would be enough soap to wash the whole world." Some 22 position papers designed to portray Reagan as a positive thinker were filed and forgotten. Instead, Reagan presented once again his nostalgic vision of a day still...
...afflictions are minor and might not even be noticed if Reagan were not under the most intense scrutiny. He plows through grueling campaign days with apparently undiminisned vigor, though he does try to get eight hours of sleep a night; and until late in the New Hampshire campaign he insisted on flying back to California every weekend to relax at his ranch, a $1.5 million enclave near Santa Barbara that few reporters or even campaign aides are ever permitted to visit. His doctors insist that he is in "remarkably good" health, and he maintains a hard campaign schedule without feeling...
...sculpture, the San Marco horses do not really equal the massive, noble modeling and sheer formal energy of the Marcus Aurelius. The curves of the horse at the Met are almost languid, its transitions smoother, the sense of muscular tension and vigor less commanding. But it is still magnificent, even in comparison with the other sculptures at the show; among these is a bronze horse's head from the Florence Archaeological Museum which, with its flaring, taut musculature, rhythmic neck folds and elegantly articulated mane, is the very essence of forceful Hellenistic realism...
...goal seemed to give the Crimson offense a renewed sense of vigor. After Dartmouth's Susan McLaughlin had been called for tripping at 14:47, Alex Lightfoot, with three seconds left on the power play, beat Ellis on a slapshot from just inside the blue line...