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...most Democrats sat on their hands as Reagan announced his proposals to Congress, and blustered about them after the speech, the preliminary consensus is that Reagan will certainly win substantial budget and tax cuts-but probably not as much of either as he wants, and certainly not in the exact form he proposes...
...American renewal is entirely possible. But it is not inevitable. It will not be accomplished by rhetoric, chest thumping, self-hypnosis. It will take great and disciplined effort and exact a considerable price. It will also require a virtue rare in America: patience...
...next seat or next apartment is worth getting to know or is a homicidal maniac. In the towns, by God, the fund of common knowledge about nearly everyone was richly and sometimes intrusively detailed. The urban milieu has its advantages-individual privacy and freedom-but it can exact a heavy psychic price. Citizens who become secrets to each other dead-end in narcissism, cut off from the nation's public life...
...dinner at Washington's National Press Club, Ronald Reagan loosed a string of his patented one-liners. "I know your organization was founded by six Washington newspaperwomen in 1919 ... Seems only yesterday." The President then quoted Jefferson. "He said that one should not worry about one's exact chronological age in reference to his ability to perform one's task," observed Reagan. "And ever since he told me that..." The California difference? "In Washington the flakes are real. And if enough of them fall from heaven, it stops traffic for hours." The President, who turned 70 last...
Indeed, the fault did not lie with the Crimson at all; rather, Princeton's team effort outstripped Harvard's generally lackluster performance. Today, we will see whether the Crimson swimmers can exact a measure of revenge in this focal point of their season...