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...FRED ("Everyman") HARRIS, l.f. rookie: Just up from the triple-A Grass Roots League; fellow players joke that even away from the ball park, he's "out in left field;" has gotten into numerous disputes this spring over desire to throw fly balls into the stands; claims he does it to help "the little...
...most Americans, Gerald R. Ford is a commoner of uncommon candor, an Everyman struggling manfully with the job of President. To Reporter Richard Reeves, Ford is "slow, unimaginative and not very articulate"-and none too candid either. In A Ford, Not a Lincoln (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich; $8.95), a new and widely discussed account of Ford's first 100 days, Reeves calls Ford's rise to the presidency "a triumph of lowest-common-denominator politics, the survival of the man without enemies, the least objectionable alternative." He adds: "The President of the U.S. is just another...
...revealing kind of empathy out of you, at least if you were a woman (not necessarily a black woman), too. Not so nice to herself--nonetheless the poet kept a grip on her personality; it wasn't glamorous piece of public property tempered to complement the bland taste of everyman...
Perplexed, dogged, distracted from the main issues in the case by everything from the economy to the mysteries of feminine psychology, he is an enormously appealing Everyman under pressure. Jennifer Warren, playing an updated version of the old Lauren Bacall character, at once smart-mouthed and sensual, is both skillful and beautiful...
...fact, Brown's anti-Establishment stance is not too far removed from Wallace's attacks on "pointy-headed" bureaucrats, though Brown is more cerebral and lacks the Alabaman's folk venom. The California Governor is not so much concerned with the "little man" as with Everyman. With a slight twist on Spiro Agnew's "rad-libs," Brown's supporters might be called "rad-cons...