Word: winging
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Nevada's conservative Senator Paul Laxalt obliquely noted two of Reagan's image problems as he guided the Californian on the Hill. "You're not talking about a right-wing nut with horns out of his ears," said Laxalt, "but a responsible conservative whose age may be a problem." Reagan, 67, is only six years older than Connally, but when he called on Tennessee's Howard Baker, 53, who also has presidential ambitions, the Senator's press aide could not resist joking to reporters: "The two had a father-son talk...
...post. He was more a man of the people, more at ease in crowds than less wealthy politicians, yet he never seemed to be totally trusted. His money hurt him in a society where populist currents still run strong, and his liberalism prompted his own party's right wing to pursue him like the avenging Furies, denying him the presidential nomination three times...
...about. With slightly less than half of the season to play, the Islanders have the best record in the N.H.L. (32 wins, 6 ties and only 9 losses). The biggest ovations are reserved for the scoring pyrotechnics of the best forward line in the game, Center Bryan Trottier, Right Wing Mike Bossy and Left Wing Clark Gillies...
...Islanders hope their big three will provide enough muscle to pry the Stanley Cup away from the Canadiens. With a goaltender's fine appreciation of the scorer's art, the Islanders' Glenn Resch sums up his teammates: "You couldn't draft a bigger, stronger left wing than Gillies. Trottier always slips through like Earl Campbell. Bossy can put the puck in the net on every good chance. He and Trottier have that psychic thing between them that a great line has to have. The ingredients are here...
...Imagination," he says, "means letting the birds in one's head out of their cages and watching them fly up into the air." His own birds wing off in a hundred different directions. Writing of life in general, he notes: "We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure." On belief: "Religions are kept alive by heresies, which are really sudden explosions of faith. Dead religions do not produce them." And, "Miracles are like jokes. They relieve our tension suddenly by setting us free from the chain of cause and effect...