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...always had high standards and was demanding," said Paul B. Bennett, senior vice president at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, where Proctor served as the chief of the regional economics staff from...
...right wing to a place squarely in the center of the American political scene. Listen to Jesse Jackson. Listen to Marian Wright Edelman. These pillars of the Left now make speeches that are in many ways indistinguishable--in substance, if not style--from those of Quayle and William Bennett, perhaps the leading commentator on the American crisis of values...
...signs that the issue has captured the public's attention are manifest. Bennett's A Book of Virtues, a compilation of stories and fables intended to instill fundamental values, is on the top of the best-seller list. Features on the crisis of values have become commonplace on talk and news programs. Last week alone, Nightline had two programs on the issue...
...responded. He has devoted several major speeches to the issue of value. It appears that Clinton has made a conscious decision to use his bully pulpit in an effort to lead the national debate on values. In this endeavor he has been encouraged by even conservative opponents like Bennett...
...followed the welfare-reform debate, Anita Hill must be having post- traumatic flashbacks. Here we have a collection of important white males, including Bill Clinton, Pat Moynihan and Bill Bennett, scowling down on one small, scared, female figure -- embodied, in this case, in the Welfare Recipient. The women in the 5 million families on welfare are no more, and no less, representative of American womanhood than Anita Hill was. But the assault on welfare, like the Senate committee's interrogation of Professor Hill, is an implicit attack on the dignity and personhood of every woman, black or white, poor...