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Maggie and Ira Moran, the middle-aged couple of Breathing Lessons, are not out to impress us with special interests or personalities. The pair represents that vast majority of Americans who live lives without life-styles. Both characters came of age during the postwar conservatism of the 1950s. After 20 years of depression and war, a future that promised a secure job, a steady mate and two children seemed more than enough. There were, of course, degrees of modest expectations. Maggie recalls the remarks of her childhood friend Serena, just before Serena married a boy named Max: "It's just...
...unopposed. Unlike the bride who returns wedding gifts when the marriage is called off, members of Congress keep what they are given, even when there is no real race. Upon retirement, a member elected before 1980 can keep this pot of money for his personal use -- a kind of IRA with no strings attached. So far, New York Democrat Stephen Solarz has piled up more than $800,000, as has Illinois Democrat Dan Rostenkowski; New Jersey Republican Matthew Rinaldo has $600,000. A law passed in 1979 allows members elected after that date to return unused campaign money...
Good news beats the blues. Sadly perhaps, a presidential campaign should not be confused with adult education. Or to update an Ira Gershwin lyric, "Who cares what banks fail in Yonkers, it is the upbeat message that conquers." Look what happened to the Cassandras with apocalyptic new ideas. Jack Kemp's earnest seminars on gold-bug economics went the way of Pete du Pont's Iowa lectures on the evils of farm subsidies. Bruce Babbitt's budgetary bravery proved that press puffery persuades few primary voters. Dick Gephardt's political stock soared only after he softened his overheated...
...candidate's national organization. Nicholas Mitropoulos, 36, Dukakis' constant shadow on the campaign trail, is an earthy, good-natured pol. A former associate director of Harvard's Institute of Politics, Mitropoulos became the Governor's director of personnel. As head of Dukakis' department of revenue, Ira Jackson, 39, a former associate dean of Harvard's John Fitzgerald Kennedy School of Government, was largely responsible for Dukakis' highly touted tax-collection efforts. If Jackson could be lured away from his job at the Bank of Boston, he could fill a top position at the Treasury or the Office of Management...
...major trend of contemporary American psychology is to include cognitive factors," says Ira S. Cohen, director of educational affairs for the American Psychological Association...