Word: wondered
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fighting consultants is not the story. What is is the failure of the Gore campaign to deflect attention from their own internal woes. What good are Gore's image consultants if they can't even spin internal disagreements with in their own campaigns? No wonder that Gore's issue message is being eclipsed by former New Jersey senator Bill Bradley. Polls in key states like New Hampshire and Michigan show a definite Bradley surge at a time when Gore is supposed to enjoy the benefits of incumbency...
...politics in an interview, he did it with what seemed a natural humility. He didn't seem to think he ought to be harrumphing from the floor of the House about what we're doing wrong as a people, or right. If you didn't know him, you wondered whether life had been too strange and soft to mold him into a harder person, one who could move into the world with force and meaning, marshaling all the things he had to make a difference. But that takes time. You wonder what he would have done...
...whole generation born after President Kennedy died never had to answer that question, "Where were you..." The unfinished presidency haunted the country for years; in polls for decades after, people ranked Kennedy as the greatest of Presidents, leading historians to wonder whether people gave him credit for doing all the things he never had the chance to do. And to the extent that the man and the myth lived on, it lived through the family, and above all through the son who bore the name and the charm and the burden...
Racial optimists might look to cable, where channels like Lifetime, MTV, HBO and Showtime offer multiracial fare--while siphoning away broadcast's audience and acclaim. Indeed, Mfume's jeremiad may be an ironic compliment: at least someone still considers the ratings-troubled networks worth fighting over. Is it any wonder the nightly lineup looks like a divided school district, pre-Brown v. Board of Education? If you were running a network today, you too would wish it were 1954 again...
Admittedly, it's easier to romanticize about what Harvard could be when the school year is still two months off, the weather warm and paper deadlines only distant dots on the horizon. But, none the less, I am forced to wonder about the dating scene that awaits and the possibility that next year I'll have a whole lot more explaining...