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...heartland last week en route to San Clemente, the President took the occasion in St. Louis to make a refreshing call to a national reconciliation -and found himself refreshed in turn by a jubilant reception that acted as a visible tonic. Once home in California, he reflected: "In Washington, we tend to live in a very isolated world. There is a sort of intellectual incest which really reduces the level of the dialogue. You have to go to the country now and then to get a real feeling of what people are thinking...
...still far from totally accepted. There are countless gradations between the two visions, and a genuine, tortured desire not to surrender to the extremes. We must urgently recognize that Middle America is a myth if it denotes a singleminded, Ag-newite bloc, the home or heartland of the Silent Majority. America is not divided between Middle Americans on one side, and radicals plus their sympathizers on the other. Middle America itself is divided, and perhaps that is hopeful...
...Portals. A similar awakening is clear at Midwest models of Old Siwash like tiny Knox College (enrollment: 1,487) in Galesburg, Ill. A typical heartland school, Knox has always been quiet, conservative and content (for a weekend, Iowa City is "a real groovy town"). In recent days, though, Knox students have occupied the dean's office and demanded a referendum on closing the school for the rest of the year. Knox students, faculty and administration members have canvassed Galesburg, house by house, for signatures on an antiwar petition. Furthermore, Knox will probably−like Princeton−give its students...
WASHINGTON, D.C., is in some ways the most untypical of American cities: a federal enclave with the psychology of a company town. For some time, Richard Nixon has argued that the capital must be more in touch with the "heartland of America"-that geographical and psychological region which also happens to be the home of his constituency. Under his New Federalism, the President wants to diffuse not only the nation's decision-making powers but also the very location of power. Thus last summer he moved the White House for four weeks to San Clemente, holding presidential dinners...
Poignant Atrocity. The morbid embrace is but one flash in a carnival of images on the single Lenten theme with which lonesco and Director Karl Heinz Stroux hold the audience alternately uneasy and tittering for two unbroken hours. Death, along with madness, is the heartland of the absurd today, recalling how, three and four centuries ago, the dance of death, along with the ship of fools, was the obsession of so much European painting and writing. For The Triumph of Death, lonesco reaches not only to Albert Camus, but also back to the Bruegel painting that bears the same title...