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Chicago has now entered a new era. Gone are the days of the three-hour lunch. Gone are the days when school-kids dreaded detention because it meant no tickets for a 3 p.m. showdown against the Cardinals. Now, these kids can get in trouble all they want; Daddy will take them to Bat Night...
That column was meant to be humorous, but the idea of Bush picking an attorney general as his running mate is still a good one. It's just that the man for the job isn't Meese, it's Richard L. Thornburgh...
...Camelot as he introduced Uncle Ted on Tuesday night. Walter Cronkite and Eric Sevareid, those old TV warriors, were back in the CBS anchor booth. And network reporters, heads cocked into their earphones, mikes at the ready, were trolling the floor for stories as if it all still meant something...
...want to admit to being Communists. Today it's used by people who don't want to admit to being liberals. In the radical 1960s, when my ears got their political training, "liberal" was a semicomic term of abuse similar to the wonderful British political insult "wet." It meant wishy-washy, ineffectual, irrelevant. To those ears, today's sinister variants such as "ultraliberal" sound bizarre. In the 1970s conservatives were still claiming prissily that they were the "true" liberals, in the classic 18th century sense, and complaining that this esteemed label had been kidnaped by collectivists. Now no one wants...
Admittedly his earlier losses had been expected or deemed possible by Dukakis -- just as his losing votes in the legislature had been when he first went there. But those losses he meant to use on the way to larger victories. In retrospect, he brought the Redemptive Loss within that same scheme. It would make him a better Governor the next time -- just you wait and see. His mother would take up the theme: All had happened for the best. Dukakis even came to take a kind of perverse credit for the loss, emphasizing that "I should never have lost...