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Cyprus and the search for a Vice President might distract attention temporarily, but the Ford Administration knows quite well what is the deadliest danger that it and the nation face: inflation. The new President sought last week to assure the country of his determination to confront it, making economic policy the focus of his heavily applauded first speech to Congress. But his program as it emerged in the broadest of outlines could almost be called Nixonomics without Nixon: it contained little that had not been advocated by the previous Administration. Whether that signified a barrenness of ideas or a realistic...
...death. The setting is Rego Park, Queens, a part of New York City where thousands pursue their lives in middle-income high-rises not far from one of the largest and dreariest cemetery complexes in the world. The story is about a young mother named Sandy Kaufman who must confront the irreversible truth that her 32-year-old husband is dying from multiple cancer of the marrow...
...that "active-negative" Presidents like Nixon face crises by "riding the tiger to the end." M.I.T. History Professor Bruce Mazlish adds in his 1972 psychohistory, In Search of Nixon, that because two of the President's brothers died in their youth, he continually struggles with "death fears"; to confront these, he may subconsciously seek out crises...
...euphoria sweeping Greece should give its new civilian leaders the needed time to reacquaint themselves with the levers of political power. When the cheering stops, however, the Cabinet and country must confront a number of serious problems...
FINALLY, Vogelgesang does little to resolve the dilemma that all intellectuals must face. That of morality versus political reality, conviction versus officous power. She does not confront the debate on the proper course for an intellectual faced with the choice of accepting a position of power but knowing that in its exercise he must vitiate many of his beliefs in favor of political expediency. This dilemma is a particularly painful one for contemporary American intellectuals who were so badly burned by their forays into policy-making with the Kennedy administration. Vogelgesang postulates three interconnected preoccupations of American intellectuals: the exercise...