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...sees a tear running down the corpse's face. Agnes asks Anna for Karin, but when Karin enters the older sister rejects the younger: "I want no part of your death...If I loved you it might be different, but I don't love you." It is a cogent argument. Maria enters next, and with her uncontrolled emotionalism comes close to embracing her dead sister; but she finally is frightened, and runs off, not wanting to be dragged down. Only Anna, with the unexamined Christian faith which every day makes her thank her God for taking her natural daughter, cares...
Wills is particularly cogent on the lack of fit between Kennedy's Catholicism and his politics. Kennedy supporters insisted that the fact that their man was Catholic would have no effect on how he would act as President. One can find little organic intellectual connection between his faith and his politics." Wills quotes Arthur Schlesinger as saying. But if being Catholic has no effect on what one thinks or how one acts, then of what importance is Catholicism? The answer to Wills's question can only disturb those who tried to synthesize pragmatic liberalism in the Sixties style with Catholic...
...trying to disengage himself. Even his defense programs were "clarified." Then in the California debates with Hubert Humphrey, McGovern was forced to admit that he did not know exactly what his ill-starred $1,000-grant-to-every-citizen would cost. When he later came up with a more cogent program, he dismissed the "Demogrant" idea as something he had never really supported. Instead of shaking the radical label, he began coming across merely as a vacillating radical...
...presidential campaigners did not cover themselves with glory, neither did the nation's press. With Nixon cloistered in the White House and McGovern on the defensive and increasingly shrill, there was little cogent dialogue to report or analyze. Instead of seeking out substantive issues, the press too often devoted itself to a running story on polls and predictions. Since these differed merely on the magnitude of Nixon's forthcoming victory, the campaign coverage never worked up even a small measure of suspense. There was plenty of rancorous rhetoric. The New York Times's Tom Wicker lashed out bitterly at Nixon...
...bipolar world" Regarding developments since the nineteenth century, he writes uncategorically. Where multipolarity existed before, bipolarity between the Soviet Union and the United States is the central feature of current international relations." Landau is similarly two-faced in his distinctions between Kennedy and Nixon foreign policy. In a cogent passage, he recalls the "chauvinism" of the Kennedy Administration which pledged "it would fight anywhere and at any time to achieve its goals." The Nixon Administration is less idealistic: it will fight only if necessary to further the overall policy of world stability. But in the next chapter, Landau blurs...