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...yourself, what does it mean to be a liberal? In Boston it means Drinan, Dukakis, and Harrington; playing politics within the system-unlike the radicals-but always demonstrating your social concern. Being a liberal is a self-conscious awareness. It means seating two blacks at the head table when there are only a handful of their brothers among the 300 paying guests. It means not eating your salad until someone announces that it is made from Union lettuce. It means hissing sexist speakers. Or, as the post- Love Story joke goes, being a liberal means always having...
...ROBERT DRINAN, 50, Democrat, Mass., has the good humor to dub himself the "Mad Monk," but is zealously serious about peace and world hunger. Says he: "I can't live at peace with myself knowing that we have 6% of the world's population and consume 60% of the world's resources." He hopes for a seat on the Judiciary Committee to put his experience as a law school dean to good...
Since he was an easy winner in a four-way primary in September, Studds never had the problem with embittered conservative Democrats that brought another more publicized peace candidate, Rev. Robert F. Drinan, so perilously close to defeat. Throughout his campaign, Studds sought to disassociate himself from the image many politicians have of liberals-not entirely unjustified-as hopelessly naive "screamers." His success in avoiding this stereotype was attested one day this summer when a union official whose local covered plants in both the 3rd and 12th districts told him, "That fucking priest Drinan is out of his mind...
...ROBERT DRINAN. While the Boston working-class neighborhoods went for conservative Mrs. Hicks, the suburbs sent to Congress a Jesuit priest who is an outspoken dove. The Rev. Robert Drinan, 49, will become the second priest ever to serve in Congress.* Drinan's antiwar campaign sagged after a primary victory over a longtime Democratic incumbent, and in the closing days he turned to economic issues to rescue his race. Drinan relied on a corps of youthful volunteers and smoothly ran a computerized campaign to fulfill the hopes of a catchy election-night placard that read OUR FATHER...
...Drinan, who shares with a conservative Alabama Baptist minister the distinction of being the only clergymen elected to Congress, yesterday told his supporters he had won because "the people are looking for moraleadership." He predicted that "the loud and unsilent minority of war critics will grow to be an unsilent majority...