Word: deweyitis
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...Four years ago, Reagan saddled the Democrats with the responsibility for tumult on the campuses, and the saddle-despite four years of Reagan rule-remains firmly affixed to his foes. Although he is way ahead, Reagan warns.his confident supporters that "I don't want to be the Tom Dewey of 1970"-and hits hard. He warns of the "barbarians among us," and invokes praise for the police to "help hold back the jungle and the jungle creatures." He promises to "provide what force is necessary" to keep peace on the campuses. Financially strapped, Unruh has been unable...
...soon halt for about 35,000 children in two districts where votes are still pending. Nor is this phenomenon limited to the Show Me state. Coast to coast, public schools have made the transition from sacred cow to scapegoat in less time than it takes to say John Dewey...
...first conservative meetings. He is both a Democrat and in national politics a liberal, he proudly points out, a former New Dealer whose office contains only two mementoes on the wall-a picture of John F. Kennedy at his inauguration and the notorious Chicago Tribune front page which heralded "Dewey Defeats Truman" in Novem...
Riding high on Joe's box-office booty, the Cannon Group, which now includes some 20 employees and six titled executives, is looking at masses of scripts. "It's a mammoth job," says Dewey. "We have them read." Already scheduled, for production or for imminent release, are a film by Novelist Howard Fast called The Hessian, set during the American Revolution "but with contemporary overtones," an Israeli comedy called Lupo, which is intended to "scoop" Fiddler on the Roof, and a movie about demolition derbies called Jump...
...Dewey and Friedland, like their Hollywood forefathers, have also apparently learned that imitation is not only the sincerest form of flattery, but it is also one of the surest signs of success. Jump, which is about stock-car racers in Appalachia, is described as "like The Hustler, except that the Paul Newman character doesn't have a pool cue-he drives a car." The budget on that one will be Cannon's limit, $300,000. With that kind of money, they reason, even if the picture bombs in the big Northern cities, they can still turn a handy...