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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Buckley's conservatism and personal appeal may attract many organization Democrats fed up with "permissive liberalism." Buckley and his party, however, still have very far to go. In the 1968 Senate race on the Conservative ticket, he pulled 17% of the vote in New York, where politics for decades has generally been centerleft...
Harvard Psychiatrist Robert Coles, who has studied ego strength among working-class children, is fed up with scholars of "alienation," who "never analyzed Mexican Americans, kids from Montana, black kids or those from Appalachia." If they did so, he says, they would find that "the old-fashioned family pulling together is by no means extinct in this country." Coles is delighted to meet "16-year-old men and women growing up with a definite sense of identity, just working hard and trying to get a paycheck, somehow being responsive to their parents?and not going to a shrink five times...
Though their composition may vary, all these devices are based on the same technology: they are capable of transforming tiny amounts of heat into electrical currents. Once amplified, those currents are fed into a display unit that shows the rise and fall of the infra-red radiations as visible light. The display may be as uncomplicated as an ordinary light bulb whose fluctuations are recorded on photographic film. In some cases it is a more sophisticated cathode-ray tube system that produces a TV-type image...
...with vast moral expectations of herself and others-especially men. From her essays, faithful readers know that Joan Didion herself came to New York right after college, when "nothing was irrevocable; everything was within reach." Her life was changed by a lengthy romance with a callous fellow who force-fed her on more cynical wisdom of the world. When she told him she never wanted to get to be like him, he replied: "Nobody wants to, but you will." It is a judgment against which Joan is still flailing out, and her anger keeps her on the brink of staring...
...should increase the nation's money supply more rapidly. The Federal Reserve has been raising the money supply at an annual rate of 4.2% in the first half of 1970. Nixon Administration officials would like a money growth of about 6% yearly and are campaigning to persuade the Fed to see things their way. At four different points in his congressional testimony last week, McCracken pressed for a faster increase in money supply. Earlier, Treasury Secretary David Kennedy had made a similar plea...