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Regarded with scorn and trepidation, the capital city remains uncomfortable but composed. By now, after all, it is used to being attacked, having in a sense been baptized in the War of 1812, when Rear Admiral Cockburn and his redcoats practically cooked the city alive. A violent storm followed the British, whipping roofs and chimneys off houses. Things looked up after that. The charred walls of the President's house were painted white, thus suggesting a new name. Eventually the mud streets were paved. A social life came waltzing in, followed briskly by a professional life and a business...
Carter "has wrapped himself in the American flag, draft registration, and the politics of the cold war," as Alexander Cockburn and James Ridgeway of The Village Voice wrote last week. He has understandably--in the context of the American political system--channeled the confusion to advance his reelection prospects, incapacitating his opponents by playing the "Rose Garden Strategy" and acting "presidential" to perfection. The nationalism has been all-consuming; Americans have forgotten about banalities such as inflation. As The New Republic...
...Boston's elegant Parker House, the nonstop chatter about special advertising sections and "upscale demographics" finally touched off a flurry of selfcriticism. "I get this vision of [readers as] some sort of sausage, into which you jam all the consumer goods you can," said Village Voice Columnist Alexander Cockburn. On the final afternoon of the three-day affair, the delegates rather selfconsciously voted to insert "alternative" into the association's name. IF. Stone, the archetype of maverick journalists, picked up on their discomfiture in his keynote speech that night: "I understand you have qualms about being called alternatives...
...Bruce Cockburn--Passim...
...Bruce Cockburn--Passim...