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...bedrock defense of the TA system is that it is inevitable in the current state of supply and demand of teachers and students. "Short of a major expansion, I don't see how the system could be changed," asserts David Thomas, 30, a fellow at Harvard. And for its admitted defects the system offers an ultimate remedy: when the next baby boom (that is, the children of the now-maturing last one) comes along, U.S. universities should have a much ampler supply of professors, many of them former TAs or students...
Stone's criticism may be destructive but it rests on an unequaled bedrock of documentation (How he ploughs through so much dull stuff each week is beyond me). Because he feels the government information bureaus are at best advertising, at worst brainwashing, agencies whose purpose is to manipulate an unsuspecting public he must go beyond them. Because he feels that administrators are a disingenuous lot, practiced in the arts of falsification, he never contents himself with their ready answers. "They've got journalistic maidenheads hanging in their offices. They like to ladle out the news. They can give the impression...
Rockefeller's--and all "liberal" Republicans'--basic political strategy is, as Novak puts it, expediential. The liberal asks, and gets, support from conservative bedrock Republicans because he can win and they can't. But the hardy 27 per cent of American voters who still call themselves Republicans don't really trust Rockefeller or his kind. The difficulties governors like Rockefeller, Scranton, and Romney have had with the Republican majorities in their legislatures--to say nothing of the disagreements between the Eisenhower Administration and the G.O.P. leadership in Congress--show what different political worlds these Republicans live...
...natural constituents of the expediential Republicans are those voters who call themselves Independents but who almost always vote for Republicans. Such people, however, seldom show up at Republican convention. In order to win, the expedientials must cater to bedrock Republican predispositions...
...Goldwater before May, 1963. Rockefeller had been active and not unsuccessful in wooing conservatives by stressing areas of Republican agreement. That meant, of course, using the standard Republican lines about the menace of communism, the menace of budget deficits, and so forth. Rockefeller as well as Goldwater helped confirm bedrock Republican's picture of a world gone wrong, of national leaders departing from the Americanism that made our country free and strong...