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...vesque and his followers took 41% of the vote and 69 legislature seats, including Bourassa's own riding in Montreal. The Liberals, with 34% of the vote, were reduced to a humiliating 28 seats, partly because the anti-Péquiste vote was split with the once dormant Union Nationale, a conservative, largely rural party that captured eleven seats in the House...
Many people see an advantage in having a President of the same party as the congressional majority. But Carter's dealings with Congress may be difficult-after the traditional honeymoon. He strongly criticizes "dormant" Presidents like Dwight Eisenhower and Gerald Ford for giving-by default -too large a policy role to Congress. Nonetheless, Congress is not likely to stop trying to influence strongly foreign policy or to change the Administration's proposed budgets. To get some of his programs through Congress, particularly those that will offend special-interest groups-many Government employees, for example, will not like...
Unlike the loss of a team or ancient coins, the loss of socially focal and artistically valuable architecture is noted in passing, accepted after the fact as inevitable and necessary. America's Forgotten Architecture, written collectively by the National Trust for Historic Preservation, aims to wake our dormant awareness of the buildings we encounter daily, to make us realize how they matter and that we can and should keep them alive. Written to save the landmarks that mark the geography of American communities and their collective memories, the book is not a coffee-table volume of Historic Architecture glossies...
...fight those who move London Bridge to Arizona, or build a monument to President Pusey in Harvard Yard? And the National Trust doesn't answer, really. They are less enterprising in confronting the social issues than in analyzing the cultural deficiency, they are better at awakening the dormant sensibility of the man-on-the-street than they are at challenging the very alert interests of the developer and businessman...
...from society," he says. "There's always much more involvement when there's much more involvement in general--in politics, in society. Right now, there's very little involvement in anything. All that I or anybody else can do is to plant seeds that are probably going to lie dormant until the times are ripe; but if you don't plant the seeds, you don't have anything to grow from when times do change, and people do want...