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...dismiss the advantages of a parliamentary form of government for the U.S. as going "one step too far." Our system of checks and balances, designed by a frontier community at a time of deep distrust of both royal executive prerogatives and the tyranny of the masses, has become an anachronism. This generation has witnessed the debilitating spectacle of a President trying to operate with a Congress controlled by the opposition. Will it take a political Mount St. Helens to blast us into recognizing the need for a more effective way of governing ourselves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 16, 1981 | 3/16/1981 | See Source »

Finally: "Any lack of candor on our part will only force our Black and Hispanic students to labor under a greater burden of ambiguity, insecurity and distrust...

Author: By Laurence S. Grafstein, | Title: For a Firm Foundation | 2/9/1981 | See Source »

...cynical about the leftists' rallying cries as they are sick of the violence. "We know that the right has done most of the killing," says a young mechanic in a San Salvador barrio, "but the left is also responsible. It has become natural for us to distrust all people with guns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: El Salvador,Killing That Will Not Stop: Killing That Will Not Stop | 1/26/1981 | See Source »

Despite his slow Western drawl, Baldrige, 58, son of a Nebraska Congressman, embodies the Eastern Establishment that many Reagan backers distrust. He is a graduate of Hotchkiss and Yale (class of 1943) and the brother of Author Letitia Baldrige, who was Jacqueline Kennedy's White House social secretary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: A Trio for Tough Departments | 12/22/1980 | See Source »

...Clicks!" have resulted in a cynicism towards men and marriage, about which she writes, "...falling in love is a risk. You might marry. No one should seek to navigate the rocky shoals of matrimony these days without first consulting prayerfully with a lawyer, an accountant, and an analyst." This distrust and dismal view of men is on of The Girl I left Behind's greatest flaws. In her tendency to blame them alone for society's ills, O'Reilly fulfills the caricature of the man-hating, strident feminist. Although her personal and statistical evidence of discrimination and sexism render...

Author: By Judith E. Matloff, | Title: Epiphanic Moments | 12/2/1980 | See Source »

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