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...Mondale book was a black loose-leaf binder bulging with explications of some 20 topics, complete with sample questions and proposed answers. The Democratic camp expected almost all of Sunday night's questions to fall into four broad categories: arms control, Star Wars, management of the Defense Department, and world hot spots, especially Central America and the Middle East. During rehearsals, Mondale was more concerned about his delivery than about mastering the facts...
Another sale looms at Reyers Shoe Store in Sharon, Pa., and that is a little like saying another leaf is falling from another tree in autumn. Reyers has sales almost constantly. Next week, for example, is the fall sale. There are more sales before Thanksgiving and before Christmas. Finally comes the January clearance, in which everything that did not get sold in the previous sales goes on sale...
...Yankee visitor wonders what the local cornbread tastes like, several regulars offer to go home right that very minute and start baking some up for an early-morning delivery. The crowd has reached full pitch, chorusing stanzas celebrating happy American vistas-I'm Looking Over a Four-Leaf Clover-and heartbreak-The Way We Were-and bittersweet hope. After all these years, I Could Have Danced All Night still prompts the certainty that Someday My Prince Will Come, perhaps no later than Tomorrow, and from then on it will be Always...
...advised crossings. The first is school prayer, and particularly the President's recent handling of the issue. The constitutional amendment on school prayer is about as close as one can come, in the American political context, to advocating state imposition of religious practice. Proponents deny this. One fig leaf is that school prayer will be voluntary. But in the universe of the eight-year-old, and certainly in his school life, very little is voluntary: not homework, nor discipline, nor even attendance...
Another fig leaf is that neither the state nor any of its officers, including teachers, are to write the prayer. Well then, how will the toddlers know what to say? It appears there is to be some kind of rotalional system whereby the Catholic will bring in his prayer one day, the Baptist the next, then the Jew, and so on. This is an exercise not in religion but in anthropology. If public prayer means anything, it means the joining together of individuals in common devotion. This ecclesiastical musical chairs, however, both trivializes religion and offends it, by asking children...