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...come as no surprise to liberal Democrats that the country has waxed conservative. Citizens see an America held hostage in Iran, helpless in Afghanistan, held in disrespect by Allies and hated by enemies. They have less money to make ends meet, see big government as a convenient target for contempt, and want a tax cut as an expedient remedy. The country seems less prosperous, less in control...
...couple of years back, when the summiteers met in Bonn, Jimmy Carter smiled. Little else. Germany's Chancellor Helmut Schmidt sat down the table from the U.S. President and swirled Coca-Cola around in his wine glass and looked with contempt along his tilted nose at Carter. Schmidt dominated the personalities, France's Valéry Giscard d'Estaing was clearly second, and Carter was down there some place with Britain's jolly James Callaghan, who did not survive Margaret Thatcher's political assault, who did not survive Margaret Thatcher's political assault...
...deepening recession is closing automobile plants; unemployment has gone to 7.8%. Inflation has subverted the traditional apparatus of American hope and self-improvement: hard work and saving. The nation's allies have developed the habit of treating it with public condescension and private contempt. Voters face a choice for President in November that leaves many of them shaking their heads. An uneasy suspicion has formed that the U.S. is about to leave the sweeping interstate highway it has cruised along for more than a generation, and return to a two-lane blacktop. Or worse. That is a heretical direction...
...news and commentary that is one of the most watched shows in the U.S.S.R. Vladimir Dunayev, 51, one of Today's regular hosts, describes the day's events-half smiling here at the absurdity of Western posturing on the Afghanistan question, curling his lip there to show contempt for U.S. National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski. The commentator is low key but sardonic, a bit like David Brinkley. But Dunayev differs from his U.S. colleagues in one significant respect: he works for the state, which he considers a fine employer. Says he: "The means of information should...
Viet Nam, the humiliation of American arms, made it respectable for young men to resist military service. The contempt and indifference that greeted the soldiers who fought the war when they returned home did not exactly glamorize military work, either. Broader international perspectives changed the view of soldiering. Detente (in its morally confusing juxtaposition with the Viet Nam War) seemed to remove the external threat to the U.S. It also encouraged cynicism: Why, asked the vulnerable young men with intimate reasons to wonder, should they sacrifice their lives fighting Communists pro patria at Khe Sanh when the President...