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...would be too easy to dismiss the rally as sixties nostalgia. As Stokeley Carmichael, a period piece himself, points out, the current anti-registration drive is huger, more politicized probably more effective, than the anti-war movement in its first three or four years. People are already mobilized, Carmichael said. In the 80's, we must be organized as well. Mobilizing is to seek influence, organizing is to seal power...
...looked forward with relish to the possibility of Reagan as their target. No longer. Says one Georgian: "People like what Reagan's saying about the economy, about foreign policy. He's offering simple solutions and that's what people want." Adds another White House aide: "To dismiss Ronald Reagan as a right-wing nut would be a very serious error-for us or anybody else...
...later: "He chooses to suppress--the sin of omission. He does not lie to us." The authors dismiss the other interpretation--that Carter is just another hack politician in the Bilboesque tradition--in a series of short clauses and brief references...
...adds that "there was a feeling that educational policy was being made in the boudoir." All of this has, of course, had the predictable and unfortunate result of clouding what Gail Parker actually proposes, and it will continue to make it easy for torchbearers of the status quo to dismiss her ideas on the future of higher education as the ravings of "a female Mencken...
Departments normally promote or dismiss junior faculty in the privacy of their offices, but a series of History Department decisions made public this week brought questions about the process, and even some grievances over it, to light...