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...first time in my life as an American, I envy something Britain has: Tory Margaret Thatcher [Feb. 24]. Her defense of "middleclass interests," espousal of rewards for skill and hard work, and resistance to the excessive power of the state strike a tiny bell of recognition, reminding us that we used to have representatives who spoke in this fashion. May I say, "We could use you here, Margaret...
...DEFENDING "MIDDLECLASS INTERESTS": If middle-class values include the encouragement of variety and individual choice, the provision of incentives and rewards for skill and hard work, the maintenance of effective barriers against the excessive power of the state and a belief in the wide distribution of individual private property, then they are certainly what I am trying to defend...
...TORIES LOST: We lost [October 1974] because we did not appear to stand firmly for anything distinctive and positive. Sneering at "middleclass values" is to insult the working class no less than the bourgeois. Do British workers have no feeling for freedom, for order, for the education of their children, for the right to work without disruption by political militants? Of course they do, and if they are no more than cash-grabbing anarchists, then we must try to show them the way back to sanity...
...high schools not affected by the integration order, attendance dropped sharply Friday. The buses arrived nearly empty yesterday morning at English High School, where several hundred white students are ordinarily bused from a middleclass neighborhood...
...they are much more than a mob--but often each is only a grotesque caricature, too easily contemptible. The point about these people, even as they stand up for solo absolution speeches--the I-take-no-responsibility echos of collective murder--is that they're supposed to be nice middleclass folks. Maybe the moral resonance of the play infects the actors with a louder evil. Anyway the only ones who can carry off the bourgeois ambivalence are those with their own natural appeal, like John Carito's Journeyman. The others sometimes blow too-sinister cigar smoke, and take over...