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Safire insists that conservatism is not a "troglodytic monolith" and that "fortunately there will be enough internal fighting" to satisfy a scrapper of his style. Just how brutish such fighting can get can be seen in a column by Rowland Evans and Robert Novak that deserves to be studied in journalism schools. Never ruminative like Will, they are columnists who air their opinions in the guise of reporting. The story they were reporting was simple enough: Reagan's new Defense Secretary, Caspar Weinberger, wanted as his deputy Frank Carlucci, who had worked in Government with him before. Right-wingers...
Solidarity is not a monolith, nor is it a creature of Walesa, though he is certainly its symbol and central force. Solidarity's 18-member leadership sprang directly from last summer's 21-day strike, and thus has a distinct Baltic coast flavor. Many are experienced labor activists who have been in trouble with the authorities before. One presidium member, Anna Walentynowicz, 51, was fired from her job as a crane operator a week before the Lenin Shipyard flare-up last August. "The immediate cause of the strike was to have me rehired," she says with a trace...
...member of Warsaw's diplomatic corps. He translated T.S. Eliot, Walt Whitman and Carl Sandburg and wrote articles for the Polish press. But all was not well between the private and public man. Having escaped Hitler's oppression, Milosz now felt hemmed in by the Stalinist monolith. In 1951 he broke with the regime and became an exile in Paris. The reasons for his defection became clear two years later with the appearance of The Captive Mind: "The immediate cause of my break with the Polish People's Democracy was socialist realism. It would be wrong...
...Tuesday or Thursday afternoon in the fall, look instead to the action behind the Stadium. There, in the shadows of that aging, hulking monolith, as the days grow shorter and the nights colder, is real sport...
...your Fourth of July cover may infuriate some, it will delight millions who view it as a reminder that the same spirit which overthrew the Crown and blazed up in vain in 1861-65 burns today with increasing fierceness against a Federal Government that has swelled into a mountainous monolith of overbearing, overburdening bureaucratic tyranny...