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...politics were never as good as George McGovern wanted them to be. And, if anything, the political game is rougher now, played by fiercer men, according to fewer rules. In a sense, the New Right's defeat of McGovern confirmed his obsolescence, confirmed that the political voices of the eighties will not speak with an indiscreet excess of conviction. Perhaps George McGovern, the former college professor, never belonged in politics in the first place. Perhaps that Capitol Hill office was meant for James Abdnor all along...
Critics came in for rougher treatment. Edmund Wilson boosted young Hemingway's career in the '20s. By the time of To Have and Have Not, The Fifth Column and For Whom the Bell Tolls, the critic was using phrases like "a growing antagonism to women" and "the all-too-perfect felicity of a youthful erotic dream." Hemingway responded to his editor Maxwell Perkins. Wilson, he writes, "reads most interestingly on all the things one does not know about. On the things one knows about truly he is stupid, inaccurate, uninformative and pretentious. But because he is so pretentious...
...former co-chairman of Reagan's Inauguration committee, plans a closed-circuit TV program during which Administration economists will explain the plan to perhaps 15,000 Reagan loyalists around the country, who will then be expected to evangelize their Congressmen. Some White House aides are prepared to play rougher than that. Says one: "If a Republican doesn't vote for us, he will have one hell of a time getting us into his district to campaign for him in 1982. And if a Democrat votes against us, he just might see a lot of us in his district...
...left is going to mount an offensive, December would be an almost ideal month. It is harvest time for major export crops-coffee, sugar cane and cotton-and disruption in the fields could deal the shaky economy a crippling blow. Leftists are also concerned that the going may get rougher after Ronald Reagan's Inauguration in January. Reagan aides have promised that the new Administration will support the junta and the army against the leftists. In addition, a report by Reagan's State Department transition team proposed changes that would curtail the influence of social reformers throughout Latin...
...real differences between Bush and Reagan are in style and manner. The son of a Connecticut banker and Senator, educated at Andover and Yale, frequently dressed in rep tie and blazer, Bush is the very embodiment of the Eastern Republican Establishment that many of Reagan's rougher-hewn followers detest. Thirty-two years in Texas, where he made a fortune now estimated at more than $1.8 million in the oil business, have left no trace of the Sunbelt in his voice or manners. As a Congressman (1967-70) who later served brief terms as Ambassador to the U.N., chairman...