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Political Cartoonist Garry Trudeau at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Va.: "It is no wonder that you've given up on the culture. With no credible ego models, what's left but to Garry Trudeau flock to your bookstores and buy handbooks on living preppies, dead cats, inert cubes, living cats and dead preppies-the subjects of the five bestselling titles on American campuses last year? These are books for minds at rest. They are also the books favored by the rest of the nation, which suggests that the post-Viet Nam fatigue syndrome...
...worked. Travel is an imperialism of the imagination, a process of acquisition: the mind collects cultures and experiences and souvenirs. The children of the industrial age poured south to dream upon the ruins. Motives are always rich and varied: travel means forms of freedom. Japanese men flock to sex tours in Seoul, Bangkok and Manila (a woman waiting in the lobby of the hotel when you get off the bus from the airport...
Even so, the Thatcher government has advised the roughly 17,000 British subjects in the country to leave, and British officials in Buenos Aires are asking them to register at the Swiss embassy, which is handling London's interests. "We're just counting our flock," says one diplomat. So are the Argentines: plain-clothes policemen are reported to be conducting a census of Britons in Buenos Aires. Anglo-Argentines are feeling suddenly vulnerable in a country where weeks ago it was a mark of status to be British. Says one nervous Anglo-Argentine: "Everybody's scared...
Priests, nuns and laity are all involved, but the most dramatic new factor is the leadership from bishops. Once belittled by church liberals as excessively cautious. much of the hierarchy is out in front of many in its U.S. flock of 50 million. Indisputably, though, the episcopal presence has been lending the causes an image of centrist respectability. "With American bishops, you're not dealing with radicals or anti-American kooks," says Father David Tracy of the University of Chicago...
Duarte, 56, whose sad, craggy face shows the wear and tear of more than two decades of political struggle, described the challenge confronting his party and country in the approaching election. "A few short days before you all flock massively to the ballot boxes in order to decide the destiny of the country," he said, "there are still voices heard that ask if our country has a way out of the crisis that afflicts it. In this transcendental moment of my life, I respond...