Word: appealing
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...only going through the motions. In 1964, for example, even Barry Goldwater's fabulists knew they were fighting the good fight and little more. In years like this, the scent of triumph is palpable. Following their 1994 midterm sweep, the Republicans are salivating. They believe their prescriptions command wide appeal: smaller government, lower taxes and fewer, less costly social programs. They're confident as well that the President's attempts to retard their march will fail or be perceived as obstructionist and that his embrace of some G.O.P. nostrums will be dismissed by voters as desperate...
...particularly dramatic moment in the Good Friday services. Very near its end, The Cunning Man (Viking; 469 pages; $23.95) provides an explanation for this long-ago demise, although it is doubtful that any reader simply intent on finding out whodunit will still be turning these pages. The overriding appeal of a Davies book, as his legion of fans will attest, rarely rides on something as mundane as suspense. Instead, Canada's foremost living author, now 81, entertains with an old-fashioned fictional mixture that he seems to have invented anew: keen social observations delivered with wit, intelligence and free-floating...
...recent self-made millionaire with an unaffected social conscience--that explains a lot of Powell's electoral appeal. He is the perfect anti-victim, validating America's fondest Horatio Alger myth that a black man with few advantages can rise to the top without bitterness and without forgetting who he is. Powell praises entrepreneurship and worries about the Demo-crats' tendency to embrace victimhood. Yet he openly acknowledges his own large debt to government activism. The son of hardworking Jamaican immigrants, he grew up poor in the Bronx and benefited from the fine education available in public schools...
...National School Boards Association, among others, filed briefs supporting the university's argument that funding Wide Awake would have violated the First Amendment's establishment-of-religion clause. ACLJ, the Southern Baptist Convention, the National Association of Evangelicals and the Christian Legal Society backed the Christian students, whose appeal was bankrolled in part by the Alliance Defense Fund, a coalition of leading evangelists and broadcasters that aims to build a $25 million fund to aid Christian litigators...
...Gramm's appeal is about self-righteous selfishness; those who can't afford their rights are left out in the cold. But at the head of the revolution, Gramm thinks his message will strike a nerve--and he may be right. A recent New York Times/CBS poll showed that an overwhelming majority of Americans support a balanced-budget amendment; that percentage dropped by more than half when it was pointed out that Social Security--one of those ways, invisible in Gramm's rhetoric, that government benefits all those who pay for it--might have to be cut to balance...