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Overshadowing all of Johnson's good works, moreover, was the "brushfire" war he inherited, which soon began to breed revolt on the campuses and riots that scarred America's cities. Month after month, optimistic war bulletins from the White House were followed by news of slaughter in the field, giving birth to the "credibility gap." As Historian Eric Goldman wrote: "In his periods of triumph and of down-sweep, he stood the tragic figure of an extraordinarily gifted President who was the wrong man from the wrong place at the wrong time under the wrong circumstances...
Through it all, Ulstermen-Protestant and Catholic-remain an incredibly sturdy breed, very warm and hospitable. A reporter develops fondnesses, even for some of the bloodiest of them; the shock is great when a man who has had you in for tea one week is found shot dead the next, his body stuffed into the back of a car. The North is both a sickening and a fascinating place. Nonetheless, there is something appealing about the brutal honesty of its politics, even the ear-scraping Northern accent, at least when compared with the soft-spoken hypocrisy one finds...
Johnson was a mountain man, one of a rare, rough breed that wandered the unexplored West of the early 19th century, living off the land, doting on danger and craving solitude. Mountain men like Johnson became the greater part beast after a while. Their survival depended almost solely on their read iness to adopt such skills and senses as are usually called animalistic...
DAVID BOWIE: THE RISE AND FALL OF ZIGGY STARDUST (RCA). A gripping evocation of the fearful doom that can sometimes threaten a rock star, from one of the most talented-and most fearful-of the breed...
Runaways. "Children do not belong to parents," says Edward Zigler, director of the U.S. Government Office of Child Development, and one of a growing breed of advocates who are concerned with children's rights. But the new children's advocates do not propose that the family give way entirely to the courts. "Courts can destroy relationships, but they cannot create them," observes Lawyer-Psychologist Joseph Goldstein of Yale Law School. He thus opposes legalistic custodial laws that assign orphaned children to their nearest blood relatives. He prefers laws that would "acknowledge the emotional realities that exist," allowing...