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Third: “Energizing the base.” Oh, how this dream shall never die. Unfortunately, it has become a quadrennial mantra for defeated Democrats. If only we had fully excited “the base”—by which proponents mean liberals and minorities, or the proletariat masses that never vote—the Democrats would have won. Well, no. Elaine Kamarck’s “The Politics of Evasion” about 1988 showed the same result as Mark Penn’s “Analysis of Voting Patterns?...
...attention being lavished on revolutionaries like Daniel Libeskind, there isn't still a bias toward tall boxes I'm envious of what adventuresome architects are achieving today with their unconventional, unearthly designs [April 25]. When I studied architecture in the early '70s, "Form follows function" was the mantra, and I was criticized for advocating any concept that dared to stray from the shoe-box straitjacket. But times have changed. Besides, when you are famous and in demand, people will readily embrace even your weirdest creations. Anyway, I doff my hat to architects like Daniel Libeskind who enrich our design vocabulary...
...America,” the voice of Pluralism Project Director Dr. Diana Eck—who is also a Professor of Comparative Religion and Indian Studies, Frederic Wertham Professor of Law and Psychiatry in Society and co-master of Lowell House—gives the audience the reassuring mantra, “No one should have to choose between multiple and vital identities...
...garbled name, with Moreno they still have it good. In building Outdoor Systems, a small outfit based in Phoenix, Ariz., into the country's largest billboard-advertising company, which Infinity (now part of Viacom) swallowed for $8.3 billion in 1999, Moreno, 58, has been guided by a basic mantra: "When you take a risk, you're either thinking you're real smart or you're real dumb." Moreno is feeling pretty bright right now as he moves to expand the Angels brand throughout the 16.7 million-strong Los Angeles metropolitan area--and beyond--by phasing out a small-market moniker...
...America,” the voice of Pluralism Project Director Dr. Diana Eck—who is also a Professor of Comparative Religion and Indian Studies, Frederic Wertham Professor of Law and Psychiatry in Society and co-master of Lowell House—gives the audience the reassuring mantra, “No one should have to choose between multiple and vital identities...