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...hear it for the new patriotism, subtle and understated in the keen grasp of our lovable President, but taken to ethnocentric and, verily, racist lengths by some of his less enlightened followers...
...harsh, but the pervasiveness of the realities discussed are in our view considerably worse. The failures described above are merely one regional and class-specific example of an underlying malaise that encompasses Blacks at every level. It is this underlying unity that our established intelligentsia has historically failed to grasp, thus accounting for their increasing irrelevence. Furthermore, this malaise has also produced new leadership opportunities for a young group of ambitious new mandarins. Hard-nosed "policy analysts" such as Professor Glenn C. Loury of the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard, or Dr. Alan Keys of the United States Department...
Attending a retreat with a group of priests in Youngstown last week, Malone told TIME, "What we need now is not to turn aside from Vatican II teaching but to grasp it with new enthusiasm and to pursue its implementation with new vigor." Since the synod will provide only two weeks to do that, Malone's report also asserted, it might be time for a special U.S. synod to deal with Vatican II. Though the U.S. bishops meet briefly once or twice a year, their last extended national council was in 1884. The U.S. bishops' conference and the Vatican have...
That Mondale, who was seemingly so proficient at the insider game of politics, could not grasp a fundamental reality of more than two decades of TV-age politicking says more about him than it does about Reagan's ethics...
Henry seems to grasp this reality, at least in theory. He writes in his introduction: "The real campaign is the string of public events that voters observe, not the hidden web of strategy memos and fund-raising dinners and portentous telephone calls." Bravo. The problem is, Henry doesn't follow through. With few exceptions and obscured by his wonderfully elegant writing style, Visions of America gives us yesteryear's headlines with a dollop of conventional wisdom to serve as analysis. Since essay-writing appears to absolve him of the requirement to report, Henry can opine that "the most antagonistic major...