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...convinced McGovern has made a grave mistake and breached his faith not only with Thomas Eagleton but also with regard to his own candidacy and our nation. Senator Eagleton's strength, wit and courage demonstrated his competence as a politician, his ability in adverse situations and the inequity of dropping him from the ticket. We are Democrats, against the war and opposed to the current Administration, but tonight we feel cheated and denied. While we will vote for McGovern in November, we refuse to work actively for the national ticket and are therefore returning our registration and campaign material...
Would ABC bow to low ratings results and the wishes of many of its affiliates by canceling the Dick Cavett Show? Or would it defer to the argument by Cavett's highly vocal following that the show was a late-night oasis of wit and intelligence that should not be forced to compete for a mass public? For months that has been the big question in the TV industry...
...what kind would least display her ignorance. She had no degree, had never held a decent job, traveled, flown in an airplane, or so much as taken a vacation. But she was a magpie reader especially of fiction and history and she knew her way around a library. To wit: the setting of Cat Dancing comes from an old WPA guide to Wyoming. Its frontier details are lifted from children's books and such relics as Bannerman's mail-order catalogue of Civil War surplus. The structure emerged from the more realistic how-to guides for fledgling writers...
...predictably early graves. The martinet mother-in-law is dead too, and even Cousin Alice Longworth's acid tongue is inexplicably silent, though she is still alive. Most sorely missed of all is F.D.R. himself, whose death marked the end of the first book. Only traces of his wit remain, such as this prayer for deliverance: "O Lord, make Eleanor tired...
...spiritual son was Adlai Stevenson. His idealism and wit rejuvenated her and, as Lash points out, she was flattered by his dependence on her. Yet she came to regard her dramatic pro-Stevenson stand at the 1960 convention as a mistake since it hurt his chance to be Secretary of State. It also dissipated her own power and as Lash notes: "She cared about her influence...