Word: novak
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...same responsibilities. We're expected to learn our lines, get the reporters steadied down, train the campaign managers and press secretaries, put up with the fellow who shows up with the sandwich sign and the Uncle Sam suit, remember which one is Evans and which one is Novak, explain why we tolerate William Loeb's tarnal foolishness in the Manchester Union Leader, and then put on DeKalb Seed Corn caps and decide which of a dozen self-swollen hot-air balloons is least likely to lead the nation to shame and ruin...
Podhoretz refused to yield. He enlisted his Commentary contributors fo an all-out crusade: among them, Nathan Glazer, Pat Moynihan, Michael Novak, Dorothy Rabinowitz, Samuel McCracken, James Q. Wilson, Bayard Rustin, Joseph W. Bishop and Podhoretz's wife Midge Decter. With sharp logic and biting wit, they drew considerable blood as they assailed radicalism on all fronts: its elitism, coercive utopianism, contempt for the common American, penchant for Government intervention, tolerance of Communist totalitarianism and its fatuous call for revolution. Intellectually at any rate, they soon had their adversaries on the run; many of the most voluble leftists...
Those dread words New Hampshire are surfacing in the political columns again. Already. In the hot sun, long before the winter snows, Columnist Robert Novak of the team of Evans and Novak has been following George Bush around the state, busy making less ("It is doubtful he was seen by more than 100 registered Republican voters") sound like more (". . . could set the foundation for an upset transforming Republican politics...
...children often seems to have been trivialized to the status of a life-style -and an unacceptable one. The obsession with being young and staying young has led to the phenomenon of almost permanently deferred adulthood. "I know 50-year-olds who are still kids," says Social Analyst Michael Novak. "They're in the playground of the world: single, unattached, self-fulfilling, self-centered. People are trying to make little Disney Worlds of detachment for themselves." For such people, parenthood is an intrusion of responsibility, of potential disappointment and, ultimately, of mortality. The kids are a memento mori...
...doctrinal attitude toward children-for or against-is not the prevailing approach of most Americans. Michael Novak suggests that only the "idea elite," the 10% of the population in well educated, upper-income groups whose work centers on education, the professions, communications or some such -may harbor ideological or even environmental biases against children. That group could not have accounted by itself for the almost uninterrupted decline in the U.S. birth rate in the 70s. It is very likely that the economics of child rearing has had much to do with the trend toward smaller families, which has been encouraged...