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...President Dwight D. Eisenhowerappointed Blackmun to the 8th District Court ofAppeals. After being nominated by President Nixonto the Supreme Court in 1970, Blackmun began histenure on the court that summer...
Other community service programs are no different: City Step, HAND, America Reads and Peace Games all cater to children under high-school age. Nor is this focus on children confined to Harvard alone: Dwight Hall at Yale and the Swearer Center at Brown show a similar bias. Almost every web page, every pamphlet on community service at Harvard and beyond shows counselors surrounded by mostly minority children hugging, laughing and frolicking...
...Family" to describe the New York intellectuals--a half-forgotten confraternity of writers and thinkers--clustered roughly around Partisan Review and Commentary. But it was Norman Podhoretz, in his young rooster's memoir, Making It (1968), who gave the term currency. In the Family (Philip Rahv, Mary McCarthy, Dwight Macdonald, Lionel and Diana Trilling, Irving Howe, Harold Rosenberg, Hannah Arendt and others), Podhoretz played a noisy, precocious younger brother, an irritant who would not stay put ideologically. In recoil against the Eisenhower inertia, Podhoretz had steered to the radical left by the early '60s. But then, appalled at the anti...
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Created by Dwight Eisenhower, the 43,000-mile, $330 billion (and still counting) network is the greatest pork barrel ever. It made the U.S. an automobile society, created millions of jobs and laced the country with superhighways that increased mobility, spurred trade and opened the countryside to development. It also doomed passenger trains...