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Edwards did not seem to have been daunted. He and others turned toward journalism and Ronald Reagan in an attempt to bang out a cogent conservative philosophy. The philosophy, he says, has won the hearts and minds of American society...
Conservative Protestant spokesmen, captive to their isolationist and even | extremist past, still exhibit far more skill at seizing attention and infuriating outsiders than at winning support from concerned Americans through cogent, reasonable discussion. The Rev. Jerry Falwell shares some of those limitations, and he displayed them last week. But at other times his reliable instincts tell him that a broad appeal is necessary, since Fundamentalists by themselves can never reshape a variegated nation. Only the American people, collectively, can produce a moral majority...
However germane and disturbing these changes might be, they are better suited to either a couple of cogent "On Baseball" columns, or through the broader treatment of all twenty six teams. Gammons appears to sense the limitations of his discussion and buttresses his ideas with a glut of observations, quotations, and baseball minutia gleaned from his years covering the Red Sox. The profiles of Sox players and accounts of management parsimony are interesting, but they often diverge from one another failing to render any brand of incisive argument. This is not impressionistic so much as it is egregiously diffuse...
What makes Schickel's argument cogent is not only critical analysis but autobiography--the stammering voice from the heart. A child of the Midwest during the '40s and early '50s, Schickel belongs to the last generation that automatically placed "silver" before "screen" and "glamorous" before "star." The world of celebrities, he confides, became "The Great Other Place"--a promised land of grace and charm and wit where nobody was ordinary, nobody was dull...
...second place, libertarian militarists--at least in Massachusetts, where the bench I was sitting on is located--are a minority. And therefore, to be effective, libertarian militarists must present a cogent., coherent, obviously persuasive dogma. Liberals in Massachusetts can trust in a wave of popular sentiment among the Commonwealth's Volvo-drivers and Burger King employees to absolve them of forensic shortcomings. Hence the viability of "ConserviTives Suck" as political propaganda...