Word: fold
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...essay expands into a kind of literary dumping ground for odd reflections on random groups and individuals: teenagers, Margaux Hemingway, the frontier. When he does attempt to make a point, as in his discussion of the recent film version of The Great Gatsby, he hardly strays from the fold of conventionalwisdom. Of Fitzgerald he asserts, "How many novelists in any age or in any country, can claim to have influenced an entire nation's perception of the life cycle?" I'm not sure Fitzgerald did this, but apparently Lynn expects one to take it on faith...
...Northeast, most of the populous industrial states-dominated by elements of the coalition-also returned. Throughout the country, blacks, who never left the party, gave Carter overwhelming margins. Union members voted in large numbers for the Democratic candidate. The Irish, Jews and Eastern Europeans were back in the fold, though in smaller numbers than the Democrats had hoped. Italians, perhaps out of the coalition for good, stayed with the G.O.P. by a small margin. But they were replaced by some newcomers, previously Republican white Protestants and farmers...
Perhaps More will find that penetrating the mystique that shrouds big names is the only way to make the magazine a financial success. But if that be the way to survive, maybe it would be better if More decided to fold...
...Medibank, pays 85 per cent of the doctor's fees and extended coverage to about one million people formerly left out of Australia's old piecemeal health system. The plan eliminated the need for high-priced private insurance except for those who insisted on luxurious hospital accommodations. The four-fold increases in federal monies for education brought Australia within the proportional levels of England and the United States in that area of spending...
...ethnic resistance to Carter, however, may well turn out to be an overexaggerated fear; in the end, most ethnics will probably stay in the Democratic fold. Predicted Sal Venezia, a city official in Catholic East Boston: "We've had enough of Republicans, regardless of who the Democratic nominee is." Added Joseph Mayer, a Philadelphia plumber: "This Southern Baptist thing is overblown. Some of my best customers are Baptists." But Carter is taking no chances. He plans to take steps to smooth over relations with the church hierarchy and hopes to improve his showing among urban Catholics and ethnics by stressing...