It was Taylor of the Post not some hireling of Rupert Murdoch or Lyndon LaRouche who achieved a Fawn Hall-like 15 minutes of fame by asking Hart the two key questions, "Do you consider adultery immoral? The letter is written in the slangy, regular-guy style much prized at the Post "Let's review the bidding here," "What in heaven's name are these guys talking about?
Six hours after Taylor popped his questions, the Post, as he boasted in his story the next day, "presented a top campaign aide with documented evidence of a recent liaison between Hart and a Washington woman with whom he has had a long-term relationship.
This proved unnecessary, in the event, because Hart decided to drop out of the race, in exchange for which the Post agreed not to print the name of the "Washington woman.
By the way , according to rumor or "persistent reports," as the Post would say , the "documented evidence" of the "recent liaison" was in fact collected by a private eye hired by a jealous husband, himself a prominent politician.
So here we have a new "role" for the press: adjudicating the love triangles of the rich and famous. Rosenthal, in a rare display of op-ed unanimity, had all deplored the Post's and the Miami Herald's handling of the story.
The Times's sixth columnist, Flora Lewis, whose specialty is foreign affairs, merely reported Europe's bafflement that such things were considered serious news. But in its own coverage, the Times went haywire, too. When—suddenly, brutally—they were moved to L. Yankees, Mets, Red Sox—I like them all, but not too much. Oh, yes: at Coney Island, in a sweet bandbox of a minor league ballpark, where every seat is good and every seat is cheap.
Our tickets, which cost thirteen dollars apiece, put us three rows up from the dugout on the third-base side. Besides our close-up view of the diamond and the players, we could see, over the left-field wall, the half-circle of the Wonder Wheel and, past the right-field bleachers, the gaily painted, sea-anemone-shaped steel skeleton of the defunct Parachute Jump, the best amusement-park ride I ever rode and the last remnant of George C.
As I say, I rooted for the Cyclones, who won, I like the Spikes, too, though. For one thing, every Spike wears his uniform pants properly, with socks showing from the kneecap down, knickerbocker-style.
Most of the Cyclones commit the latter-day heresy of letting their pants billow clear down to their ankles, like pajamas. I watched the game with, so to speak, half a brain. This alternate me knows vaguely that the game is a little like cricket. He knows that one scores a goal by hitting a ball with a stick and running around the corners of a square until one has returned to the corner where one started.
As the game drones on, he muses…. A single footballer does more running in five minutes than all, what, all eighteen of these guys do in a whole match. Is that the ball? Cardinal Newman, G. Chesterton and C. Lewis would be devastated by your off-hand dismissal of Satan. Chesterton, and C. Americans and Europeans, including Catholics, are increasingly liberal on such matters.
African and Asian Catholics are extremely conservative. The Anglicans are already in crisis on account of this split. Going to church for the first time and seeing a man come out to the altar wearing a dress and a necklace clinched it for me that the whole thing was one big masquerade for strange people!
How can we help repair the lives of those children who have been abused? What has been the reaction of Roman Catholic leadership in Africa to the abuse scandal? I hope the foreign editor of the New York Times is listening. At the time, it was common for newspapers and magazines to have campus correspondent programs through which they would attract gifted student writers at Harvard.
Hertzberg became a campus correspondent for Newsweek as an undergraduate and then eventually moved to San Francisco to work at the publication full-time after graduation.
Later on, Hertzberg landed a job as a staff writer at the New Yorker. A few years later, when he was offered a chance to write a speech for then-governor of New York Hugh Carey, Hertzberg said that he saw an opportunity to combine his love of writing and politics and accepted without hesitation. For a time, he wrote speeches for Carey during the election, an experience that would prime him for bigger opportunities down the road.
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