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The mood of self-congratulation, while understandable, is not entirely warranted by the facts, as some conservatives themselves concede. A number of conservative organizations have lately encountered resistance in fund raising, evidently because many longtime contributors have decided that the cause has essentially triumphed. The President alluded to this problem...
Theater began with one actor in a mask playing all the parts, relying on his imagination and the audience's. The modern one-person show blends that ancient Greek bravado with the calculated emotional exposure of the stand-up comic. The soloist, unmasked, tells the audience what is about to...
Thousands of us went to hear Jesse Jackson speak in the Harvard Yard in early April, and were more affected by his angry, cadent rhythms than by his actual words. "Hooray, hooray," we all shouted, basking in the sunshine and the communal glow of self-congratulation. After the speech a...
The closing scene of Act I leaves the seductive on the chopping block, but the audience is lost to self-congratulation. "We're not all here," one particularly groomed young man confided to a companion while stumbling up the side at intermission. "We made it through the first act which...
As a Canadian, I believe that my fellow citizens enjoy as much personal freedom and almost as much prosperity as Americans. Thus I regard the present surge of patriotism in the U.S. as a harmless if naive and tactless exercise in self-congratulation. I become quite frightened, however, at the...