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...long, exemplary life, Mumford has resisted such tendencies, writing with equal facility about art, technology, politics, social theory. Throughout, the old observer has remained a child of the city, disappointed that grownups have made such a mess of his world, but intoxicated with life and its possibilities. He recalls a transcendent moment when, as a young man, he gazed at an evening sky over Newport, R.I., and decided "that the world had meaning: and life itself even at its worst was more wonderful than anyone had been able to say in words." In recalling his own career, Mumford has found...
Washington's bungled budgetmaking has both enraged and frightened Wall Street, which understandably enough holds the Administration and Congress equally accountable for the present mess. Indeed, when Budget Director David Stockman offered American Stock Exchange officials assurances of lower deficits by 1985, derisive financial leaders practically hooted him off the stage...
...have lived frugal lives, paid off mortgages, saved and invested. They have been sabotaged by things beyond their control: longer life, lower birth rates, overexpansion of the Social Security program and, most devastating, inflation. Let's not polarize young against old as if the latter had caused the mess...
...unleadable that they insist on ritually disposing of the President every four years or less. The pat tern need not be inevitable, but in moments of depression, Americans may imagine that the procession of somehow foreshortened presidential terms makes the U.S. like the late Roman Empire: an ungovernable mess with a short attention span, restlessly chucking its leaders...
...that can hardly be true with the economic mess that we came into office with. And what we are trying to resolve here-and, as a matter of fact, they do kind of dovetail-are mutual problems in the field of economics and our trade problems and so forth. I think the United States plays a very important role in the world economy. One of the most helpful things we can do for our allies is to put our country on a sound economic footing. And that's pretty exciting...