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...actor in search of his next role. The contrast is appropriate because rarely do voters get a chance to choose between candidates for the Senate-or any other office-who differ so clearly in persona and policy as New York Senator James Buckley and his Democratic challenger, Daniel Patrick Moynihan...
...Moynihan, 49, came out of a bro ken home and Irish poverty in Hell's Kitchen. Thanks to City College, Tufts and the London School of Economics, Moynihan propelled himself into an episodic academic career (Syracuse University, Harvard) that he constantly interrupts by sprints down the corridors of power. No subject-traffic safety, crime, black mores, welfare reform, the future of democracy-is beyond his ken or pen. Always a Democrat, he has fraternized with the party's reform and regular factions in New York just as he has served with equal panache each President-Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon...
...answer is that Kissinger is not unique--in fact, he is an apt symbol of the well-developed relationship between Harvard and Washington, D. C. Many other Harvard professors and administrators have accepted high government positions. In foreign policy, the list includes former U. N. ambassador Daniel P. Moynihan, and presidential advisor McGeorge Bundy, architect of the U. S. strategy in Vietnam. Similar connections exist in domestic social and economic policy. As Secretary of Labor, John Dunlop designed and administered a wage-price freeze that somehow was a lot better at holding down wages than prices, and Moynihan...
...amazing, but there are some people who haven't ever seen it; more amazing still are the ones who hate it. My junior roommate from Rochester, New York, really a marvelous guy and a cineaste to boot, just couldn't see why this was so funny. (Senator Moynihan would try to tell him Eth-nic-ity, but that's not the answer.) This was Mel Brooks' first feature and it reaches heights Catskillian. Surely if one had the chance to show a class of Martians any ten American comedies, this would be included in the green syllabus because, as Alex...
...second sea change came in the 1960s when the angry New Left, convinced that liberals and conservatives were alike in their Viet Nam-cold war complicity, trashed the liberal scene. The Commentary crowd, including men like Pat Moynihan, recoiled in shock from leftists who extolled the totalitarian "social justice" of a Cuba or a China. To Irving Kristol, 20th century liberalism has become neo-socialism, a creed "more interested in equality than in liberty." Critic Alfred Kazin concludes that liberal and conservative are "fraudulent and intellectually useless terms." Why not, asks another, declare a moratorium on both words, since both...