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...Mathias is deeply concerned about the alienation of the progressive Republicans from the Administration. The Haynsworth defeat showed that the party must broaden its appeal, not narrow it, Mathias contends, and the Administration ought to work more closely with its own progressive Senators. "There is a whole group of us in this boat. We're in such a rock-bottom situation that if the Administration does not do business with us, every bill that comes along will be a Haynsworth. By God, we've been standing in the marketplace for nine months, and it's time...
...think that because there are so many Americas, each one would broaden the perspective of the others. But it hasn't worked that way. The urbane upper-middle class of the coasts ridicules Nixon's mumbling about the silent majority. In Alabama, when a kid from a small town goes to Harvard he can never feel safe in that town again. The eyes of the haggard speechwriters and secretaries are too tired to focus on the Tobacco Road slums five blocks away from the Capitol. When we get excited because a half-million of us have gathered so close...
...Pusey's approval, however, is uncertain. He said earlier this month that coed housing would be possible without complete merger, but added that some legal changes were necessary to broaden Harvard's jurisdiction over Cliffies...
Agenda by Rome. Liberals among the bishops and theologians would like to broaden the discussions to include such divisive issues as birth control and priestly celibacy. There is little likelihood that they will get their way; Rome has set the agenda. But no such proscriptions bound the rebellious European Assembly of Priests, whose 80 delegates began six days of meetings last week...
...matter of practical urgency. American policy in Vietnam is only the most glaringly unsuccessful example of a general policy of internal manipulation and oppression which this country practices in under-developed nations all over the world. If the present anti-war movement is ever to broaden its perspective so as to be able to attack the entire structure of American policy in the Third World-the structure that may well lead us into new Vietnams before long-then the movement must at some time have the courage to portray the situation in the world as it is, and to argue...