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...cutting, bureaucracy-streamlining Pro-business image. Critics call him obsequious. Two years ago, King embraced then-President Jimmy Carter as warmly as be now does Reagan. Other detractors say he is unstable "I don't know whether he's the real world or not," says King's predecessor and principle challenger, Michael S. Dukakis...
...department can generate a swirling storm of controversy every bit as well as the big boys at State and Defense. In fact, he has succeeded in making his policies, his picture and his off-color remarks a regular feature of the daily papers. By contrast, the most exposure his predecessor the capable and effective Cecil V. Andrus, could ever muster consisted of a couple of TV commercials promoting potatoes...
Today Harvard's Divinity School-founded as a separate institution on 1816-carries on many of the purposes and traditions of its predecessor. But silence on political and social issues is not one of them. Over the last few decades the Div School has emerged as a pocket of progressivism in a school long known for its traditional tastes...
...their sordid love lives and has a heroine named Marie; like Die Soldaten, it is constructed in 15 self-contained, even aphoristic, scenes. Lulu-like Die Soldaten, a twelve-tone opera-similarly features a heroine who ends up a common prostitute. Zimmermann deliberately invoked the shade of his illustrious predecessor; the challenge he set himself was to improve upon the originals. That he failed is less a comment on his ability than a tribute to Berg's genius: Wozzeck (1922) epitomized 20th century alienation in its tale of a miserable soldier ground to pieces beneath the wheels...
King's staff hopes soon to move on to the issue of crime prevention, where they say the incumbent has a much tougher reputation than his predecessor. And by September 14, they hope that Democratic voters will believe that King best represents the economic interests of the working class...