Word: kevin
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...Kevin Phillips, a conservative analyst, predicted the current right-wing rupture in his new book, Post-Conservative America. "The Reagan electorate," he writes, "is an extremely unusual Republican constituency," since it comprises two nontraditionally G.O.P factions: a broad swath of working-class voters as well as the smaller, messianic New Right. Because the deep appeal for the New Right was Reagan's impossible amalgam of "various nostalgias and backward-looking vistas" and "a desire for bold measures," the presidential task of "successfully fulfilling such electoral hopes is likely to be difficult. Hence," Phillips writes, "Reagan's coalition...
...last two provocative books that go a long way toward explaining both the Reagan landslide and the political division that has been its ironic consequence: The New Class War, by leftist political scientists Frances Fox Piven and Richard A. Cloward, and Post-Conservative America, by conservative commentator Kevin Phillips. Both works bear the ideological imprint of their authors; but both are also tough-minded and refreshingly iconoclastic examinations of the social forces that are shaping American politics...
Spurred on by two decades of sexual permissiveness, the disease has cut swiftly through the ranks of the sexually active. "The truth about life in the United States in the 1980s," says Dr. Kevin Murphy of Dallas, one of the nation's leading herpes researchers, "is that if you are going to have sex, you are going to have to take the risk of getting herpes." An estimated 20 million Americans now have genital herpes, with as many as half a million new cases expected this year, according to the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta...
...Kevin J. Muir Clifton Heights...
...convention's featured speakers, Boston Mayor Kevin H. White, told the delegates the city's poor race relations record is improving, adding that in NAACP convention could not have been held in the Hub five years...