Word: whips
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Heaven and the Metropolitan Transportation Authority know that Godey's plot is not far removed from the reality of the contemporary urban nightmare. But Godey tries to whip up extra credibility by introducing each new twist in the drama with a flourish of fact-filled three-by-five cards. Want to know how many miles of track there are in the New York subway system? Where Alfred Ely Beach's 1867 private subway tunnel is? What it means to "jump a block"? Maybe not, but Godey is going to tell you. He cannot even write a scene about...
...quickly became a member of the elite "board of education"--then an informal club of the House's most powerful leaders, including Speaker Sam Rayburn and John McCormick. He slowly began to learn the ins and outs of House leadership. Two years ago, Carl Albert picked him as majority whip, a position he held until his recent election to the post of majority leader...
REPRESENTATIVE LESLIE ARENDS, 77, has been Republican Whip for 30 years and is one of Gerald Ford's key aides in pushing Nixon legislation through the House. Popular and gregarious, an unsung parliamentary tactician of confounding skill he blocked a 1971 House vote on the Mansfield Amendment, which called for withdrawal of all U.S. troops from Viet Nam within six months. For all his enthusiasm, however the Illinoisan is frank about G.O.P. problems when they occur. "The way things are going," he said during a low point, "we couldn't put the Ten Commandments into the bill...
SENATOR EDWARD KENNEDY, 40, the heir apparent to national Democratic leadership, will be in the forefront of congressional confrontation with the President over the next several years. Considerably sobered by Chappaquiddick in 1969 and his loss of the Senate Whip's job to West Virginia's Robert Byrd in 1971, he is proving a highly adept Senate strategist...
Certainly, critics could not have expected the quality of E.L. Doctorow's writing and the complexity of his novel's conception. His previous books. Welcome to Nerd Times and Big as Life, displayed his concern with ethical difficulties without giving indication of the novelist's ability to whip observations and emotions into an intellectually compelling, deeply felt, unified narrative, Critics who did praise Daniel applauded. Doctorow`s new found control and intensity, Still, even thought Stanley Kauffmann and Peter Prescott called it in the novel of the tear, the New Yorker didn't consider it at all, and any treatment...