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...least excellent breed) may be better educated, more honest and industrious - more excellent - than ever. Vermont maple syrup is excellent. American agriculture is excellent. Ted Hood's sails are excellent. American telephone service is excellent. American professional sports would be excellent if they were not so drenched in greed. Look abroad: the French language is excellent. Some would argue that the entire country of Switzerland is excellent (if somewhat savorless), from its unemployment rate (.3%) to its scenery to its national airline...
...lots of places around here," says Miner Roy Phillips of Neon, Ky., "those doghole mines are the only things you can make a living at. It's not greed, it's survival." Yet the manager of one huge Kentucky mine finds that trade-off untenable. Says he: "This isn't like mom-and-pop stores any more. If we continue to pretend that it is, the price will be paid in miners' lives...
...accompany him on a shopping trip is to be lectured on U.S. civilization and its discontents. He tells everyone who will listen that the end is near. Reports Charlie: "He said the signs were everywhere. In the high prices, the bad tempers, the gut worry. In the stupidity and greed of people, and in the hoggish fatness of them." The country will soon collapse into class war, he assures his son: "When it comes, I'll be the first one they kill. They always kill the smart ones first." He is also the dominant, inescapable presence in The Mosquito...
...love. Almost every time, despite occasional initial success, the attempt to make them part of this world has failed. What was Marxism, but a try at institutionalizing some of those vague notions? And yet, if any experiment has ever failed resoundingly it is that one, for the forces of greed, ambition and control have been able to pervert the idea of communism until it is an unparalleled abomination. And what were trade unions in the West, but a stab at something called living decently? When there was enough in this country to go around they sometimes worked for the quarter...
There's nothing evasive or coy about them. They don't pander to greed, resentment, or envy. They are not locked in the logic or the rhetoric of the '70s. They are the kind of proposal that made the Democratic party and made the middle class of this country, the kind of proposal that will serve the social, physical and economic well-being of the people of this state. True, they reflect changed realities, but they also reflect a constancy of purpose, and finally, a political honesty about who we are, where we are, and what we must...