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More importantly, the Democrats simply will reinforce their current image of disunity and disorganization. The pall of the Carter Administration will extend to the darkest corners of the beer stands in Madison Square Garden: Liberty, Justice and Incompetence for all. The president, who hopes to mend fences with Kennedy when the campaign ends, may find it difficult even to shake hands with Ted at the convention podium...
...rhetoric another, and it takes a literal-minded innocent to be deviled by the discrepancy. But Americans often somehow held to the fierce, insistent innocence of their myth even when they penetrated to the deeper parts of the forest, regions of dense moral distress, ambiguity and, in the darkest places, tragedy. In his almost spookily prescient 1955 novel about Viet Nam, The Quiet American, Graham Greene remarked that their innocence makes Americans the most dangerous people in the world...
...burst of hyperbole that seems wildly excessive even for the darkest hours of the Watergate White House, Agnew writes that he feared for his life at the hands of Nixon aides who would stop at nothing to save the President. After vigorous bargaining, he pleaded nolo contendere to one count of income tax evasion and left office. Had he known Nixon was so vulnerable, he says now, he might have fought for his job and thus become President. It was that possibility that alarmed so many people in government, even the Prince...
...social spending and try to force a recession while they continue to pay billions for missiles. Our government backs nuclear power, allows schools to deteriorate and sells elections to the highest bidder--in short it serves the twisted, vested interests of the few just as it did during the darkest days of Vietnam...
...days, you might sigh, when an hour was 45 minutes and sometimes 90, and when people ate with spoons, and butter-knives were but a dream in Shreve, Crump of Low's darkest recesses. But if Alvin Toffler heard you he would scold, consigning you to the First Wave, which began with the original harvest. For Toffler is a visionary, looking out to sea at that big comber waiting to smash the sandcastles of today--this Third Wave, the biggest, most powerful, most blessed of all. "The Third Wave," he notes in the introduction, "is for those who think...