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Following a stint as Secretary of HEW, Weinberger returned to California and the private sector as special counsel to Bechtel Corp., the huge engineering firm. The allure was plain: Weinberger was soon making more than $500,000 a year. Yet friends say that he quickly began to miss both public office and his life in the East. Unlike many California conservatives, observed Nicholas Lemann in a penetrating article about Weinberger in the Atlantic, he felt no bitterness "toward the culture of the Eastern liberal Establishment. Weinberger loved that world and considered himself a part of it." The Weinbergers have since...
Clarity, the third theme, may be the most important. John Paul seems determined to make it plain that there should be unquestioning allegiance where basic church doctrine is concerned, which critics see as a denial of intellectual freedom. Asks the Rev. Richard McBrien, chairman of Notre Dame's theology department: "Are we back to book bannings, blacklistings, suspensions, expulsions and even excommunications...
...American racist patterns and Afro-American life could tell Mansfield that Blacks have never lacked the will--yes, that rugged individualistic will that New Right analysts cherish so much--or the institutional knowledge required to become citizens at parity with American citizenship standards, and it is insulting and just plain ignorant of Mansfield to suggest otherwise What Black Americans have tacked in their tortuous citizenship quest is the freedom to pursue it--freedom from vulgar and degrading racist values like those implied in Mansfield and Charles Murray's writings, freedom from a century of authoritarian practices, especially in the South...
...Inaugural Address on Monday, Ronald Reagan planned to be modestly attired, in a plain blue business suit rather than the black club coat and striped trousers he wore when he first took the oath of office in 1981. Like the President's clothing, the Inaugural celebration was toned down, at least in comparison with the $16 million extravaganza that launched Reagan's first term. The four-day celebration was not exactly subdued; not with eight black- tie balls, two galas, a huge fireworks display and a parade. But the theme of the Inaugural was "We the People," and even...
...seminal force in Creedence Clearwater Revival, he sang, "The man from the magazine/ Said I was on my way/ Somewhere I lost connections/ I ran out of songs to play." It was as if Fogerty had seen the future plain. Seven years later, that haunted little reverie from a tune called Lodi had turned into grim reality. He had lost out on--been done out of, he would say--millions of dollars in a bitter wrangle with his money managers. He got jammed up legally, and creatively he had gone dead...