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...this is not a wholly vocational class. In fact, it is a reasonably socially aware class. Says Paul Ginsberg, dean of students at the University of Wisconsin at Madison: "They are not callous. They are showing their concern and involvement in often less conspicuous ways." At Wisconsin a tutoring program for disadvantaged students has been besieged by volunteers. Students at Emory University organized a service to send some 400 volunteers into the Atlanta community to help the elderly and handicapped. Among class members there appears to be a rich sense of camaraderie, despite the intense competition. Says Emory...
...budget in early 1981--ironically, while the governor's own aides were in Washington lobbying against some federal cuts: This January, King loudly praised the New Federalism. And at last week's governor's gathering. When his fellow Democrats unanimously declared that they are "appalled at the Administration's callous disregard of the elderly, farmers, college students, small business and unemployed workers, "King was conspicuously absent. Instead, he met personally with Reagan, declaring afterwards, "I see no reason why we should not have a tremendous vote" for the economic package...
...influence we have." The move would also hurt the reputation of Western bankers. Adds a European banking authority: "A Western declaration of default would make the Soviets chuckle. The Russians would be able to discredit the West, particularly in the Third World, where such action would be regarded as callous capitalism...
...creedal passion periods? A conflict between "history and progress," Huntington explains, one that involves the difficulty of campaigning for the old ways, made more difficult by the inertia of modern institutions. But a more convincing explanation might be this: that many Americans, not out of patriotism but out of callous economic or political self-interest, have perverted the American Creed itself (and not, as Huntington argues, just the institutional reforms that emerge from it) to hold people in bondage. It is no accident, it seems to me, that words like rights and liberty play prominent parts in those Mobil...
Your excellent review of Franklin Roosevelt failed to mention one fact: his neglect, if not abandonment, of European Jewry during World War II. Roosevelt's callous refusal to take appropriate actions to end the Nazi killing machine is now too clearly documented to be dismissed in a period of reminiscence. I cannot share in a celebration of his legacy...