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This romantic Coolidge may have gained a little stature in the past ten months. Thomas B. Silver has suggested in the American Scholar that Coolidge has been victimized in part by Schlesinger's own bias. "Imagine that the next five years are characterized by peace, national calm, unprecedented inflation-free prosperity, and rigid executive integrity," writes Silver, suggesting that was the nature of the Coolidge era. Surely that is the man Ronald Reagan sees when he glances at the Cabinet Room wall, and the man Ronald Reagan wants...
...strong bond had formed between them. Some also noted another barrier to life in Mexico: Cindy speaks no Spanish. After a year, Klein concluded that the child should be reared by the Johnses, mainly because of educational opportunities in this country. Klein's critics accused him of cultural bias and insisted that U.S. courts had no business ruling on the fate of a child who was in this country illegally. Some complained that the Johnses were being rewarded for having flouted the law long enough to strengthen their emotional-bond argument...
...Blacks have made throughout the centuries, Vincent Harding hopes to identify the long, continuous course of the "river" that continues to flow even now. Veteran of the Black freedom movement in the 1960s, first director of the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Center and teacher of history, Harding shows bias in River--the first of two volumes--by often using "we" and "us." But he still writes compellingly...
...good market for in-depth commentary on major Cambridge political issues and the arts, Robert Heroux, editor of the Express, described the weekly as a "literate alternative to the Phoenix." Heroux said, "We intend to take a balanced press approach. We are not going in with any specific bias, but will stress a much more analytical and objective commentary...
Meanwhile, Prime Minister FitzGerald was trying to make unification of the Republic and Ulster more attractive to Northern Ireland's Protestants, who have protested that they would be swallowed up in a predominantly Catholic state. FitzGerald proposed changing the Republic's constitution and laws to remove Catholic bias. He cited articles that claim jurisdiction over the whole island and ban divorce. FitzGerald is likely to have trouble getting his plan passed by the Dail, since he leads a coalition that has only a two-vote margin. If approved, the constitutional amendments would have to be ratified by national...