Word: weaknessness
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The man in charge of the Hart campaign is Hart himself, and therein lies a weakness. As he proved in the 1972 McGovern campaign and in his stunning upset this year in New Hampshire, Hart is a shrewd political tactician. But it is exceedingly difficult to be a winning candidate...
"I want art to look back at me," Surls told an interviewer a few years ago. "If it doesn't you might as well bury it in your backyard." There is a lot of autobiography in Surls' work, but some anguish, too, mingled with self-mockery. Of course...
If Rovere betrays a weakness, it is modesty. "What I feel is a certain thinness in my work, a certain choppiness, a reluctance to take on and see to completion any work that will take more than a few days or a few weeks," he complains. "I have spent God...
Maine may have been the most telling display of Hart's strength and Mondale's weakness. Mondale had tried hard there, outspending Hart $400,000 to $40,000. Perhaps a third of the Democrats were from union households, Mondale's supposed mainstays. And voters chose delegates at...
Edwin Newman, 65, newly retired NBC-TV correspondent, on a continuing weakness of TV news: "There are too many correspondents standing outside buildings and saying, 'Time will tell.'"