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...usually answer with rehearsed minispeeches that may have little relation to what was asked. The discussion of issues gets squashed into two-minute spiels and one-minute rebuttals that are wildly oversimplified at best and all too often downright misleading. In past campaigns, charges New York Times Columnist Tom Wicker, "nothing . . . has spread more misinformation, more false claims and more just outright mischaracterizations of things than those debates have...
...other constitutional issues. President Ford and advisers like retired General Brent Scowcroft argue that classified information on covert CIA activity in the mythical country of Sierra Madre must be kept secret from Congress and the public. Democratic Senator Christopher Dodd of Connecticut and New York Times Columnist Tom Wicker disagree. The debate is familiar, but it gains discipline and clarity from the astute questioning of Moderator Benno Schmidt, dean of the Columbia Law School. Unfortunately, the hour shows are frequently over before the surface has been more than scratched: too many celebrity experts to hear from. Still, The Constitution...
...Duchess is what the locals call Simons' imperious mother. He calls her the Doctor because she teaches something cultural at a nearby college. She also knows how to refill her bourbon glass gracefully, sit appealingly on a wicker sofa and pass on the literary tradition. Some of Simons' earliest playthings were books from his mother's library; he is obviously on his way to being well read, although he takes pains to hide the fact...
...professional know-it-alls caught knowing almost nothing, chased after the phenomenon. Their continuing embarrassing bewilderment made many of them uneasy. "You can feel a terrible shaking of the earth," said New Republic Editor Hendrik Hertzberg, "as new conventional wisdom struggles to be born." New York Times Columnist Tom Wicker observed that "the publicity that the press gave to the 'upset' of its own erroneous expectations" was responsible for Hart's sudden, starry prominence...
...news was represented by CBS's Walter Cronkite, whose only apparent threat to Reagan is in surpassing him in on-the-air avuncularity, and ABC's David Brinkley, who pronounced himself "delighted." Print journalists included the Washington Post's Ben Bradlee, New York Times Columnist Tom Wicker, the Atlantic's James Fallows and TIME International Editor Karsten Prager...