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...Undergraduate] Council is as generous as it was to a skeletal organization," said Maddox, "no problem...
...otherwise, shows little sign of being harnessed purposefully. Says Sam Brown, who was director of ACTION, the federal volunteer agency that operates the Peace Corps and VISTA, during the Carter Administration: "With all this sense of feeling good about ourselves, I haven't seen a growth of generous spirit toward the least privileged among us, and that has the risk of turning into an 'Everything's O.K., we don't have to worry about anybody else' kind of attitude." Editor Charles Peters of the Washington Monthly, guru...
...evident, it isn't fully flowered. It's still tentative. The baby boomers, says Wheeler, who is a Republican, "have a sense that life isn't as simple as in the old days. They can't slip into simplistic, chauvinistic patriotism. Theirs is a generous and mature patriotism, [not] thin and shrill." Ron Hayes, a Minnesota farm-management teacher, is seven years older than Wheeler, and just over the generational line. "When they play The Star-Spangled Banner" Hayes says, "I can still feel a chill up my spine. But I doubt if my kids...
...Less generous indexing. Under full indexing, which goes into effect next year, the amount of income subject to a particular rate of tax is adjusted upward each year by a percentage equal to the inflation rate. Mondale, however, would index the incomes of families earning more than $25,000 a year only to the extent that inflation exceeds 4% annually. If the inflation rate is 5%, their incomes would be indexed...
...Viennese give this mettle tester a commanding reading, capturing the grandeur of its arresting introduction, the suavity of its incongruous waltz and the enigma of its bitonal ending. The rarely encountered, frankly Wagnerian tone poem Macbeth, Strauss's first attempt in the genre, makes an appealing, generous bonus...