Walter Shapiro

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

Thank God, the rain drops aren't falling on the press secretary's head. I wonder who will carry an umbrella for her on January 21st. Maybe OANN. — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

"Spiders Creep Up on Rivals in Tight AL Central Race." Please make it the Spiders instead of having some p-r driven contest that will end up giving us the Cleveland Walking Dead. — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

@varadmehta @CTIronman Key word "inching." — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

@CTIronman @varadmehta Check back in about two years when life (knock wood) gets back to normal rather than creating the unprecedented stresses of the pandemic. Also, since I teach at Yale, I get crime updates from New Haven on my phone. — PolitiTweet.org

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@varadmehta @CTIronman Here on the Upper West Side, I feel very safe. Especially since the increase in shootings is from the very low base of 2019 rather than the nervous-making 1980s. Also, given the pandemic, it is difficult to make assumptions about what the increase means in lasting terms. — PolitiTweet.org

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@ClydeHaberman Correction: It's "Electrical Cottage." Yes, all-electric living will soon be coming to cottage dwellers all over America. — PolitiTweet.org

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@NFLObjectors @powellnyt @JoeBiden From my @newrepublic article: "Biden will have the power to prevent the CDC from defining globe-trotting financial titans or movie stars as essential workers. Appeals by, say, the National Football League to safeguard the Super Bowl should be laughed off the field." — PolitiTweet.org

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@CarlosLozadaWP How about calling it a "moon shot." — PolitiTweet.org

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From my latest @newreublic piece: "The credibility of his vaccination program depends on Americans believing that the initial, limited supplies of doses will be allocated fairly—to those who need them most rather than those with the most clout." https://t.co/1oEjRpU4S7 — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @newrepublic: Trump's White House has implied that the first lifeboats are always reserved for VIPs. Can Biden change that? From @MrWalt… — PolitiTweet.org

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Something tells me that McConnell didn't game this one out in advance. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @SalmanRushdie: This is true. https://t.co/HbFahHFHY0 — PolitiTweet.org

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On a day when we lost John le Carre, it is somehow wonderful that Carl Erskine, who joined the Dodgers in 1948 and won 11 games when they won the World Series for Brooklyn in 1955, still keeps alive the spirit of the Boys of Summer at age 96. — PolitiTweet.org

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Only thing like it is Bob Buhl, a pitcher for the 1962 Milwaukee Braves and Chicago Cubs, who did not get a hit in 70 official trips to the plate. But, unlike Trump, Buhl did walk 6 times and somehow drove in a run. — PolitiTweet.org

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@JuliaManhattan It's possible that this was the filler obit that briefly ran as they readied her pre-written one for publication. I just saw the Correction, not the original version. — PolitiTweet.org

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@pattmlatimes The Times probably will soon hire people who think that 20th century novelists were named Norman Miller, Philip Robb and Saul Billow. — PolitiTweet.org

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Yikes at this NYTimes error: "Correction: Dec. 13, 2020 -- An earlier version of this obituary misspelled the surname of the British writer who called Mr. le Carré's novel 'The Spy Who Came in From the Cold' 'the best spy story I have ever read.' He was Graham Greene, not Green." — PolitiTweet.org

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@GiniaNYT @powellnyt I'll go with "Hell no." Yes, the lure of small towns for ambitious 27-year-olds is the stuff of legend in America. That is, legendary novels like "Main Street." — PolitiTweet.org

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Cleveland Spiders is what it has to be. It has the ring of history and the nickname is useful in a pennant race when Cleveland just creeps up on you. — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

@reedgalen It's just like an old-time Buddy movie. — PolitiTweet.org

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Chuck Yaeger. — PolitiTweet.org

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@TerryTeachout1 @BrandyLJensen Start at the beginning of the Smiley saga with "Call for the Dead" from 1961. Then read "The Spy Who Came in from the Cold." — PolitiTweet.org

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@mauryisl @manerdm Reread "Call for the Dead" about five years ago. Your quotes almost make me want to read it for the third time. — PolitiTweet.org

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@mauryisl Too many start with "The Spy Who Came In from the Cold." In the second sentence of "Call," we learn that Lady Ann in 1947 left George for a Cuban race car driver. But she also said that she could never leave him. It's all there in the first two paragraphs. — PolitiTweet.org

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John le Carre's genius was that he could make us care so deeply about George Smiley, whom he introduced at the opening of "Call for the Dead" (1961) with this description: "Short, fat and of quiet disposition, he appeared to spend a lot of money on really bad clothes." — PolitiTweet.org

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I'm frightened to imagine what a group called Ashamed Boys might do. — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

@e_springhorn Definitely. I added him in a followup tweet. — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

@dougfromDC Mel Brooks was on my original list. And I am only counting those over 85. — PolitiTweet.org

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@Un_Gray Definitely Angela Landbury. From “The Manchurian Candidate” to Sondheim. — PolitiTweet.org

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@DrETtibmed The list is my personal list of people I revere who are over the age of 85. It has no medical significance whatsoever beyond the fact that everyone on it is high risk because of age. — PolitiTweet.org