Mary McGrory
Mary McGrory
Mary McGrorywas an American journalist and columnist. She specialized in American politics, and was noted for her detailed coverage of political maneuverings. She wrote over 8,000 columns, but no books, and made very few media or lecture appearances. She was a fierce opponent of the Vietnam War and was on Richard Nixon's enemies list. One reviewer said:...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth22 August 1918
CountryUnited States of America
baseball football
Baseball is what we were, and football is what we have become
america courtroom grow man
Haldeman is the only man in America in this generation who let his hair grow for a courtroom appearance.
companion sort
as a companion to the distraught, sort of a psychiatric nurse, just saying: 'You're OK. They're wrong.'
running morning men
[On George H.W. Bush:] A man who wishes to lead the Western world should be able to find the right words, string them together in coherent sentences, and steer them to an intelligible conclusion. His sentences have the stuttering start of an old car on a cold morning. They never run smoothly. The only speech part that he has mastered completely is the non sequitur.
men feelings vote
[On George H.W. Bush vs. Michael Dukakis:] Americans now know they can vote for a man who can't express his thoughts or a man who can't express his feelings.
boredom enemy engagement
[On Senator Everett Dirksen:] His great enemy was boredom and he won every engagement.
beautiful country kindness
[On Italy:] ... the country where kindness to strangers is a religion, you can't turn your head without seeing something beautiful, and you can't get a bad meal if you try.
sports baseball heart
Baseball has a special place in our hearts. It is the game that shows us as we would like to be.
sacrifice thinking people
Human sacrifice is much in vogue right now. The Republican right thinks that people who get on its nerves, especially women, should be sent to the stake. . .
dirty years optimism
I am hoping for better times. That's how you know us hapless gardeners - by our dirty fingernails and our absurd, unquenchable optimism about next year.
children lying home
Anyone who has undergone home repair lately knows that your everyday artisan uses language so loosely and makes false promises so glibly as to make your politicians, even the presidential candidate, seem like a model of accuracy and rectitude. 'Be there Wednesday at nine,' the workman will tell you. It is a lie. He is humoring you. He says it to silence you, the way you tell a child you will take it to Disneyland if it will stop crying.
men years eight
[On men:] On their best days, the best of them are eight years old.
proud inanimate-objects spiteful
Appliances have idiosyncracies, just like us. Unfortunately they have picked up our less attractive traits - they are proud, spiteful, and unforgiving.
teenager golden-retrievers lord
My friend Phil has a theory that the Lord, having made teenagers, felt constrained to make amends and so created the golden retriever.