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...booming New Hampshire. But the Missouri Congressman insists that he does not need a depressed farm economy to sell his brand of downbeat realism. "Even in New Hampshire," he argued in a TIME interview, "there's the feeling that people are not getting ahead economically; they can't buy the house; they can't afford the education. It's more jobs, more work, less income, more debt." In any case, Gephardt does not have the luxury of tailoring his appeal to New England voters. Even though an oil-import fee is wildly unpopular in these frigid climes, Gephardt must hold...
Though Dole and Bush are both seen as traditional G.O.P. politicians, there seems to be a cleavage, in culture and outlook, between their respective supporters. Says Charles Douglas, a former New Hampshire Supreme Court justice and a Kemp supporter: "It's the difference between those who buy their clothes at Sears and those who go to Brooks Brothers." If Dole represents Main Street, Bush personifies Wall Street. Dole's roots are rural; Bush's are suburban country club. Like Reagan, Bush is upbeat about the future; Dole, and Roberston as well, speaks for those who are concerned or resentful about...
...love of money is the root of all evil. Money cannot buy happiness. Many writers would be abashed at the prospect of wringing anything new or interesting out of these hoary maxims. Not Lewis H. Lapham, the editor of Harper's magazine and a regular contributor to it as well, whose Money and Class in America amusingly roams over the glitzy terrain of contemporary consumerism. Lapham of course rephrases old adages. Radix malorum est cupiditas becomes "It isn't the money itself that causes the trouble, but rather the use of money as votive ritual and pagan ornament." Wealth...
...pillows artistically around a drawing room. The customers for these esoteric goods and services spring from what Lapham calls the "equestrian class," which has multiplied impressively during the decades of postwar American prosperity and which "comprises all those who can afford to ride rather than walk and who can buy any or all of the baubles that constitute the proofs of social status. As with the ancient Romans, the rank is for sale...
...more significant were Reagan's promises to encourage private-sector participation. Commercial space firms, for example, were assured that federal agencies would buy their launch services. Companies across the country saw the new policy as an important symbolic move. "It's great news," said Bruce Jackson, a Houston space-engineering consultant. "It's a shot in the arm, and it will snowball." But without long-term funding, presidential promises mean little. Said Consultant Christopher Kraft, former head of the Johnson Space Center: "The proof of the pudding is, Where's the bucks...