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...ticket, he modified what had seemed, the week before, his principled positions on affirmative action and the children of illegal immigrants. At last week's convention, Al Gore's excruciatingly extended description of his own sister's death from lung cancer in 1984 was at preposterous variance with his hymn to tobacco farming while seeking votes in North Carolina in 1988. Late last week in the Washington Post, Gore explained that an "emotional numbness" after his sister's death "prevented me from integrating into all aspects of my life the implications of what that tragedy truly meant." This defense, best...
...accident that Travis Tritt sang, in the convention's closing hymn, "I wish I could turn the clock back/to the way my daddy said it was before." Nor that the most powerful moment of Bob Dole's acceptance speech came when he invoked the honor of the father he loved, standing all the way on the train from Kansas to Michigan to visit the son he thought was dying in the hospital. For months the campaign has been played as a custody fight--who would be the better father of our country; whom would you trust, Clinton or Dole...
...refusal to ingratiate himself with his audience. You keep waiting for him to crack a smile, offer a consoling gesture, express some softening sentiment. He does not. And if there is much that is withering in his contempt, there is also something bracing in the loony tunelessness of this hymn to human dispirit...
...Bread of heaven / Bread of heaven," the Radcliffe women's rugby hymn pleads. "Feed me 'til I want no more...
...America we hymn a gospel of progress, and the great premise, and promise, of the country is its continual forward motion. One reason so many people migrate to the New World is to escape the hidebound traditions and confining circles of the Old, to flee changeless cycles for a world of never-ending blue. America revels in a child's sense that the future is illimitable, and tomorrow need not bring with it any taint of yesterday...