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...needs facts? This was a debate carried to a Platonic level of abstraction, with little firsthand information to get in the way of the warring factions' preconceptions. For conservatives, the demon was a snobby, radical media-entertainment industry; for liberals, an overreaching, freedom-averse ruling party. ("Right-wing thought police declare Reagan, like dissent, off-limits," cried People for the American Way, as if this would lead inevitably to storm troopers forcing audiences to watch Fox News at gunpoint...
...needs facts? This was a debate carried to a Platonic level of abstraction, with little firsthand information to get in the way of the warring factions' preconceptions. For conservatives, the demon was a snobby, radical media-entertainment industry; for liberals, an overreaching, freedom-averse ruling party. ("Right-wing thought police declare Reagan, like dissent, off-limits," cried People for the American Way, as if this would lead inevitably to storm troopers forcing audiences to watch Fox News at gunpoint...
Neustadt’s knowledge was an asset to those presidents whom he counseled, and his firsthand experiences with the occupants of the Oval Office made him a unique resource to the University...
...Dixon, 64, thought she knew all about grief and loss from her years as a hospice administrator. But when she and her husband Bob, 66, moved from Yellow Springs, Ohio, to a small mountain community in North Carolina to be near their son, she started to learn about loss firsthand. "We'd lived in Ohio for 32 years. Suddenly, I lost a community and job that I loved, a house we'd built ourselves, easy contact with most of our family and friends," she says. "When I got to North Carolina, the house didn't smell like my house...
Gross said that he, too, has been trying to get a better idea of student life. In mid-September, he said took a walk—unnoticed—through the Quad on a Saturday night to observe the social scene firsthand...