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Seventeenth century England was much taken by Sir Walter Raleigh's description of an American demi-Eden where it was forever either spring or summer. This balmy land of the blest, he said, lay on the 35th parallel of north latitude-in present-day North Carolina. Rallying to Raleigh, for whom North Carolina named its capital, Southerners have ever since believed in their hearts that their region is kindlier, lovelier and more conducive to the good life than any other patch of earth this side of paradise, and not without reason...
...help him win, the Democratic National Committee will be leading a nationwide, $2 million campaign aimed at registering at least 8 million of the 48 million eligible but unregistered voters by Election Day. The targeted states closely parallel those on Carter's hit list. Most of the unregistered voters are likely Democrats: the blacks and the Latinos, the poor and the young. The D.N.C. and labor will also be working to ensure that all eligible voters cast their ballots on Nov. 2. A recent survey by Peter D. Hart Associates shows that people who do not plan to vote prefer...
Moynihan's combination of scholarly pursuits and public service is almost without parallel in America today. Along with ground-breaking books on ethnicity (Beyond the Melting Pot, co-authored by Nathan Glazer) and the Great Society (Maximum Feasible Misunderstanding), he served as a White House Counsellor to Richard Nixon and persuaded him to support an income-maintenance program. Later, Moynihan was named Ambassador to India by Nixon and Ambassador to the U.N. by Ford. He was expected to be no great shakes as a campaigner, but he seems to be catching on. With his polka...
...your critic of Dr. Gregory Hemingway's book [July 26]. I would also like to know what type of person the author is. My reason is in some ways more provocative. Dr. Hemingway is my father. I haven't seen him for eight years. This seems a parallel to the fact that he was out of physical touch with my grandfather for ten painful (according to the book) years. I feel no bitterness toward my father, but I think it sad that I learn more about him by reading articles and gossip columns than from my own communication...
That solemn judgment echoes through the works of several modern historical theorists, who point like hour hands to the parallel decline of the modern West. Oswald Spengler believed that the historical cycle-both Roman and industrial-ends in megalopolis, where man coheres "unstably in fluid masses, the parasitical city dweller, traditionless, utterly matter of fact, religionless, clever, unfruitful ..." Arnold Toynbee, in his monumental A Study of History, charted Rome and America through similar cycles of triumph, disintegration and collapse; like the empire of Augustus and Tiberius, imperial America could end in "a schism in the soul...