Word: lyndon
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Nevertheless, when Christopher Milne died last week at 75, the newspapers were again full of polite reproaches for the neglectful father of Christopher Robin. Days later, with the passing of another of English-speaking childhood's most beloved figures--Pamela Lyndon Travers (known to her fans as "P.L.")--the papers seemed to reflect another kind of disillusion. This time, it was a thinly veiled disappointment that the creator of Mary Poppins should have proved less saccharine than the character portrayed by Julie Andrews in the Walt Disney movie...
...while welcoming some of the changes they brought churning along with them. In any case, it is not entirely feckless nostalgia to say that the last age of real American parental responsibility was the age of Eisenhower, after which (as the boomers thought) adults became disreputable and untrustworthy (Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon). The deconstruction of American public authority in the Vietnam years left boundaries eroded and crumbling. Individual roles melted into one another. Older distinctive identities and purposes grew confused. Men and women interchange roles on a horizontal axis. Children and parents switch places on the vertical. Too many...
President Clinton, who faced token opposition from convicted felon Lyndon R. LaRouche, received 2,710 votes to LaRouche...
Eric S. Olney '98, the vice president of the Harvard-Radcliffe College Democrats, said that his organization made an effort to get out the Democratic vote, despite the fact that Clinton was opposed only by Lyndon H. LaRouche Jr. and "no preference...
Fallows goes a bit far in skewering the press for becoming too querulous about official pronouncements. That habit began with the deceits of Lyndon Johnson about Vietnam and Richard Nixon about Cambodia and Watergate--and for good reason. But he is right that the effort to be tough often degenerates into being merely snarling and snide, with an elitist irony substituting for honest skepticism. Reporters earn their investigative stripes by chasing scandals and catching politicians in flip-flops, which divert attention from truly important policy issues that must be resolved. "The result is an arms race of 'attitude,' in which...