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...first signs are small, puzzling and all too easy to dismiss. For Chicago Journalist Charles Leroux, it was his mother's diminishing ability to manage her checkbook and count change. For Frank Holmes, a retired Boston businessman, it was the wild spending sprees by his once prudent wife and her increasing tendency to garble phone messages. For Eleanor Zimmerlein, an Illinois farmer's wife, it was the decline in the quality of her husband's handiwork: "Suddenly the row of shingles he'd put on the roof would be crooked, and he couldn...
Back home, Hawke's foreign travels, and his encounter with President Reagan, met with mixed reviews. Sniffed the conservative Australian Financial Review: "Many Australians will dismiss Mr. Hawke's jawboning with Mr. Reagan as a mere B-grade movie publicity stunt." Predictably, Labor Party left-wingers were furious with the Prime Minister for playing fast and loose with what they consider key elements of the party's foreign policy. Labor M.P Ken Fry blasted Hawke's repudiation of party policy on Indonesia, among other things, accusing him of "sacrificing principle for expediency...
According to Heilbut's debatable thesis, after Pearl Harbor the German Americans were thought of as just one more group of aliens. After World War II, the McCarthy period seemed to strike an ominous and familiar chord. Mann, who had found in California his Eden, came to dismiss it as "an artificial paradise," America as a "soulless soil." Einstein complained that Americans, shortchanging their idealism, were not American enough. Psychologist Erik Erikson once wrote that only in the U.S. could Freud's prescription for human dignity, Lieben und Arbeiten (love and work), be realized. But he became "increasingly...
...national groups only indirectly. In Massachusetts a group called MassDIVISI, a coalition of local groups, spearheaded a recent successful lobbying effort to secure legislation in the Massachusetts House. The House voted to completely divest all state pension funds from companies operating in South Africa. Officials of the organization dismiss the importance of national groups in the success, saying it was primarily a local effort...
...School faculty passes a grading policy change which to spires legitimate disagreement some students feel that grading students on class participation could interfere with the Law School's blind and therefore objective marking procedures, but many observers dismiss the complaints as an advanced form of grade grubbing But the faculty passes it when the proper student representatives are absent without warning them that the measure will come up for consideration...