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Fallows did not jump at the chance to work for Carter, mulling over the late June offer for five or six days. He had to drop his writing projects--a piece for The New Yorker about the military and a book for Random House about class divisions in the United States--and survey friends to see whether he would have difficulty crossing back into journalism afterwards. And he studied the charges of Robert Shrum, an ex-McGovern speechwriter who left his position with Carter with a blast about the Georgian's alleged two-facedness. After three months working for Carter...
...many columnists, cartoonists and comedians who provide the lunatic fringework of political commentary, this year's presidential race has not been a laughing matter. "The banality of the candidates destroys humorous comment," complains Roger Angell, humorist and a fiction editor of The New Yorker. To Johnny Carson, Carter v. Ford is "fear of the unknown v. fear of the known." Chirped veteran Mockingbird Mort Sahl: "Choosing between them is like choosing between Seconal and Nembutal...
...Yorker Journalist Renata Adler's special purview has often been the odd schizophrenia induced in those Americans who came of age (as she did) in the 1950s-a generation that was too young to cheer the System and too old to blow it up. The seven stories in Speedboat, though cast as fiction, really form an extended reporter's notebook on the same story: the many ways that agreeable, hypereducated people find to go slowly bonkers...
...turned in on itself to the point where most poems seem to be written about being unable to compose poetry. Prose, too, introspects to analysis or suggestion modern novelists seem lost in a funhouse of potential trips that stay potential, journalists discuss other journalists' intents in the New Yorker and the 20 most interesting minutes of the Carter-Ford debate were those in which the newscasters debated the concept, aim and probable effects of the broadcast while the candidates stood silent in Philadelphia...
...coin to see who starts off and then let them go at each other." Adds Journalism Professor Edward P. Bassett of the University of Southern California: "All that's needed is an interlocutor who can keep them at each other's throat." But another panelist, New Yorker Correspondent Elizabeth Drew, disagrees. Says she: "At least we had the opportunity to inject reality. I don't think it would be too good to have Ford saying, 'Jimmy, is it true you want to increase spending to the sky?' Or Carter asking, 'Mr. Ford...