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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ACCIDENT that the dominant cultural medium in the United States is television. To reinforce the box-like world view gained from hours in front of the tube we have surrounded ourselves with television analogues. Reality has become a metaphor for a 19-inch screen. More than anything else, it is from the windows of a car that we see the world, and the world we see is a General Motors version of Stagecoach or The Streets of San Francisco...
...Faith of our fathers, living still," sang a weary, anxious, deeply troubled Jimmy Carter, "in spite of dungeon, fire and sword. . ." And when it came time for the choir to respond with the eloquent verses of Psalm 130, the President sat, head bowed, in his front-row pew at the National Cathedral and listened intently to the ancient words of hope in a time of trouble: "Out of the depths have I cried to you, O Lord, hear my prayer...
...slated to be released for a "press conference" before some 200 American and other foreign correspondents. The three?two 23-year-old black Marines and a 22-year-old female secretary?were seated at a table in front of three colored posters of the Ayatullah and slogans denouncing the exiled Shah of Iran and President Carter. Read?one misspelled poster: CARTER IS SUPPORTING THIS NASTY CRIMINAL UNDER THE PROTEX OF SICKNESS...
...minutes of the sort of anti-Washington, pro-free-enterprise punch lines that Reagan has used to wow audiences since 1964, when he campaigned for Barry Goldwater. But Reagan delivered his speech with far less passion than he has in the past. This time he is the front runner, and in an attempt to broaden his appeal, the former California Governor seems to have banked the fires that once frightened more moderate G.O.P. factions...
...breakthrough came at 10:15 last Thursday morning. Its import was discreetly disguised by the dry language that negotiators use. "In the light of the discussions we have had," said Robert Mugabe, co-leader of the Patriotic Front, "if you are prepared to include [our] forces in paragraph 13 of the British paper, we are able to agree to the interim proposals." Impassively, British Foreign Secretary Lord Carrington said that a sentence would be added to the paragraph in question: "The Patriotic Front Forces will be required to comply with the directions of the Governor...