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...White House than a short memory and a tendency to oversimplify. Buchwald could still be ironic and point out that Reagan and his ilk follow an American dream inherently weighted towards those who are already strong over those who are struggling to survive. Instead, the columnist settles for the easier "All politicians are clowns" line. Case closed. One of the few exceptions to this tendency is his clear opposition to foolhardy American adventurism abroad, particularly in response to "raging communism." Yet he balances this point of view with a childishly xenophobic portrayal of the Soviets and Chinese, who barely grasp...
...columnist almost always falls back on conversation to ensure a light tone and clarify his stereotypes. Congressmen Schmertz and Thyroid duel over whose rhetoric will cut more taxes, while Third World leader Bangambi complains to oil minister Ahmed that high petroleum prices are draining resources from the cause of the underdeveloped. "We shouldn't put a cut-rate price on our friendship," Ahmed responds. "The fact that we make everyone pay the same shows we respect you as much as we do the West German imperialist." The images are never complicated, and Buchwald doesn't hesitate to repeat his point...
...United States was "ill-founded," George F. Will asserted in his Godkin Lectures two weeks ago. In his discussion of the nature of government, the nationally syndicated columnist challenged the basic assumptions on which this nation is based. For the past two centuries, political argument has assumed freedom of individual choice as a given, and has proceeded from there. The debate, Will said, between the "Massachusetts liberalism" of Edward M. Kennedy '54 and Ronald Reagan's "Manchester liberalism," though politically significant, is philosophically meaningless. Both agree on the basics; they disagree merely on how to achieve the ends...
Nationally syndicated columnist George F. Will last night told 650 people at the Kennedy School of Government that conservative leaders have created a "national decadence" by focusing too much attention on free market capitalism...
Arguing that government has a responsibility to impose and solidify virtue in its citizens, conservative columnist George F. Will last night criticized modern politicians' reluctance to assert social values for the common good...