Word: delacourt
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What is so fundamentally disturbing about the Reagan Administration is that it is the present embodiment of the American Dream. Doonesbury's Duane Delacourt, in charge of symbolism for Carter and Brown, was a parody of the symbols the Left still has to offer--tired repetitions of the idea that politics could be groovy as well as homespun. But what Reagan has done--and it must be seen as some kind of bizarre triumph--has been to reclaim the remnants of the symbolism of the right: the we're-the-really-good-guys syndrome that descends directly from Jefferson...
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