Vladislav Tretiak, the great Soviet goaltender of the '70s and the general manager of the Russian Olympic team, remarked of him: "He does not look like the Soviet hockey-school player.
Alex sneaked off to watch some unsanctioned TV (a family friend once remarked of him, "Do you ever get the feeling that Alex is just an independent contractor working out of your home?") while Nat donned boxing gloves and jabbed at a heavy bag that hung near the table.
His principal props were Ernest Bevin, a pragmatic trade unionist who had made his mark during the war as an energetic labour minister, Labour stalwart Hugh Dalton, and Stafford Cripps, an aloof intellectual (Churchilll once remarked of him: "There but for the grace of God, goes God").
Bennett remarked of him that "Karmichael has an attitude just like Darren Lockyer where he can make a mistake and kiss it off and just get on with the game, It's a wonderful quality to have and you'd like every player to have it.
Or is the press teasing provocative remarks out of him, which, especially taken out of context, make for big, viral stories?
Punctuating his remarks are pictures of him with Mr. Vallone, on one occasion clasping hands on the campaign stump and another time, huddled in what appears to be jovial conversation.
Instead, media coverage of Dobson's remarks stripped him of any and all potential controversy with respect to his views on parenting and child beating, describing him instead with the vague and anodyne term 'Evangelical.'Evangelical
The remarks of the rabbi who eulogized him at his funeral could have applied to many of baseball's greatest voices.
On Friday, a front-page editorial referred to the "smug attitude and smart remarks" of Governor Bush and called him "Governor Smirk".
