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Because the correct moral position on issues such as segregation and the Vietnam War was so overwhelming and obvious to them, activists of the '60s could "throw themselves into the events with abandon," according to Hendrik Hertzberg '65 of the New Republic...
...secretary called for politicians to abandon their partisanship and work together to pass effective legislation. "We ought to move education around the political arena," he said...
John Sununu remains as White House chief of staff despite recommendations from Bush's advisers and friends that Sununu be dumped for his abuse of government transportation. "But Sununu is not the same chief of staff," claims an aide. Sununu got the message: either abandon some of your perks or leave. Bush bent him with what one White House man termed "presidential tough love," a mix of ire and affection that even leaves a little room for humor. At last Thursday's Al Smith dinner, Sununu deadpanned about the difficulty getting to Manhattan: "The problem was we had trouble landing...
...common beyond their curiosity about the largely disparaged sea of mass media and commercial persuasion: ads, billboards, newsprint, TV montage and all kinds of kitsch. In the '20s Dadaists and Surrealists had been fascinated by this too, but Pop art dived into it with a kind of wallowing abandon...
...EEOC and those feminists who back this subjective standard of harassment would like us to abandon a thousand years of Anglo-Saxon legal precedent. Such an abandonment will not end harassment. It will merely destroy the rule...