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...Jesse L. Jackson drew 5000 Harvard students and others to the Yard, exhorting them to choose the moral high road on the issue of apartheid, to shun rationalization and let their emotions dictate the terms for dealing with South Africa's parish regime. The reverend is famous for his disdain for those who use immoral means to attain their ends; he blasted President Bok for his paternalistic and tokenistic approach to aiding the oppresed Black South Africans, opting instead for what he calls the moral purity of complete divestment...
What lies ahead for ABC in its new marriage? Known for its careful cost cutting (see box), Capital Cities will doubtless attempt to trim fat from ABC. It will look with disdain, for example, on the network's habit of sending several executives, when one would be sufficient, on expensive business trips. Money-losing departments like network news might be vulnerable, although Capital Cities generally leaves high-quality journalistic operations alone. Still, as one concerned ABC middle manager fretted, "A lot of people are walking around worried." A producer for ABC News's 20/20 program said, "Capital Cities...
...chief lobbyist of the 500,000-member National Federation of Independent Businessmen. Still, McKevitt acknowledges that when an ex-member turns to lobbying, the attitude of his former colleagues changes: "It's not that they see you as scum of the earth, but it is a kind of disdain...
...love of bright colors, too, is betrayed by the plastic paint they slap on everywhere, which flakes and peels as the colors of their native fabrics and tiles never did." A few passages border on old-fashioned disrespectful wog-whomping, though some of the author's deepest disdain is reserved for the scraggly, underwashed Western students who can be found everywhere: "They were hot and smelly, and seemed to be sitting on top of me, sticking bits of themselves into me in a way Asiatics...
...thoughts about their ignoble times. Wilson interjects such commentary to underscore the point that the assemblages of traits and mannerisms that are his characters are too confused or corrupt for weighty contemplation. Wilson is forbearing about the sins of the flesh, while the transgressions against reason are greeted with disdain. Conservative authority is the secret hero of this book; hapless liberalism and its freebooting institutions are the goats. The result is a sharp irony concisely expressed by an envious KGB agent: "How could a man reach Blore's position of eminence without being checked or vetted? Questions like this...