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TIME AND time again, Cuomo touches on the key issues of latter-day liberalism--busing, quotas, the death penalty, race relations, labor relations--only to leave the reader grasping for straws. Recounting a February 21, 1981 speech to a Glen Oaks Jewish group, Cuomo writes:
A decade ago you would have expected a group like this one to be sensitive to the concerns of the minorities, open-minded, compassionate--in a very general sense, 'liberal.' No such thing today. There is a fear, an insecurity and an impatience with government that makes these embattled middle...
Cuomo then proceeds to drop the topic leaving the reader wondering exactly why the issue should be so simple--they oppose busing, ergo they are selfish, period, exclamation mark. But, in the aftermath of major deterioration in many school systems where students are bused, and the violence and "white flight...
One left the event with more than theories, more than the effete guilt-ridden, liberalism that followed Birmingham and preceded busing. Guilt comes too cheaply when there is work left to be done--not marches, but the still harder work of integrating truth into a society that has never been...
But by and large, Ferraro manages to hold strong views without causing extreme reactions. She is liberal (the Americans for Democratic Action gives her a 75% rating), but not too liberal for her ethnic working-class district, which gave her 73% of the vote in 1982. She is vehemently against...