Word: attack
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Rule-Book Attack. It may be that part of Rockefeller's confidence comes from the near-flawless campaign machine that gets him to the right place at the right time. His daily schedule includes a notation on the staff's dress for the day. His advance men provide the hat and Rockefeller produces the rabbit: when he unexpectedly confronted a picket line of firemen recently, his aides produced a public-address system and Rockefeller, who did not cross the line, made a speech that drew applause...
...possible that neither Goldberg's rule-book attack nor Rockefeller's standard defense hold the key to the outcome. That may be in any one of several imponderables. Among them...
Those are just some of the factors that are giving pause to political dopesters normally facile with predictions. As usual, Rockefeller, by design, started as the underdog. Now he is beginning to attack; it remains to be seen whether Goldberg has a campaign weapon he has kept hidden. He will need a big one to end Rockefeller's twelve-year reign in Albany...
...symbol to those of his countrymen who yearn for greater artistic freedom. Even as Solzhenitsyn, 51, and his wife Natalya celebrated the award with friends at a party outside Moscow in the little wooden dacha of Cellist Mstislav Rostropovich, hard-lining Soviet literary bureaucrats were preparing an attack on him. Under the heading "An Unseemly Game," the Soviet Writers' Union, which reflects the Kremlin's views, issued a statement that denounced the award as deplorable and stated that Solzhenitsyn's works gave Western reactionaries ammunition for criticizing the Soviet Union...
...start of the attack is frighteningly similar to the one in 1958, when Boris Pasternak was ultimately forced to reject the prize and in the later stages was reviled by party-lining writers as, among other things, "a pig who fouled the spot where he ate." The Solzhenitsyn affair, however, is potentially far more serious. Pasternak's Doctor Zhivago was less a political novel than a lyrically philosophical view of the effects of the Revolution on the lives of people. By contrast, Solzhenitsyn's main works (One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, Cancer Ward, The First...