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...Reaganism. The "moral economy" of the country has shifted unalterably to the presumption that people are entitled to a certain level of state-guaranteed economic protection Reagan's victory was but a "blip" born of disgust with Jimmy Carter's ineptitude. Thus, the stage is set's maybe the curtain rose on Solidarity Day--for the old coalition of labor, Blacks, and the poor to come roaring back into the streets and defend their hard-won economic rights...
...dealing with a Communist system that is spectacularly failing on a domestic level but has turned into a military power equal to the U.S.? Should the West lend a helping hand in the economic development of the Soviet bloc in hopes of influencing political reform behind the Iron Curtain, or should it, on the contrary, use its economic leverage to try to bring the Soviet system to its knees? Either way, is there any reason to believe that withholding trade and technology can have any influence on Soviet behavior...
...weekday entries are NBC's Overnight, airing from 1:30 a.m. to 2:30 a.m. (Fridays 2 a.m. to 3 a.m.); ABC's This Morning, 6 a.m. to 7 a.m.; and NBC's Early Today, a 6:30 a.m. curtain raiser to the 30-year-old Today show, which airs at 7 a.m. To come in October are an ABC hour of news and talk from midnight to 1 a.m., featuring Interviewer Phil Donahue, and a CBS marathon from 2 a.m. to 7 a.m. that will lead into the network's Morning News from...
...Interstate 86 and 91, and the Connecticut Turnpike to Exit 32 to 31. Performances in the air-conditioned theatre tend to start promptly at the designated hour. There are facilities for picnickers on the premises, and four minstrels sing and play on the lawn for half an hour before curtain...
...women are invariably brutal. Thy Brother's Wife (contrary to Greeley's mock self-review) is in fact a better, more hopeful book. The pace is quicker, the characters more firmly drawn, the sexual rites gentler. Greeley's turf remains Camelot West: the Chicago of lace-curtain Irish who have pushed their way to the top. Multimillionaire Mike Cronin, who beds women faster than Joe Kennedy could say "Gloria Swanson," has set the course for his two sons. Paul, the Notre Dame boy who goes off to win a Medal of Honor in the Korean...