Word: plaines
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...however, a liberal Ivy League don. In fact, he is a maverick outsider who emigrated from the Ukraine as a child and worked his way through school, a gadfly who enjoys riling the old-boy professors at Harvard. Berger's taste for legal jousting is all too plain in his latest book, Government by Judiciary (Harvard University Press; $15), an elaborate study of the 1866 drafting of the 14th Amendment to the Constitution and its subsequent application. Berger's conclusion: virtually every major judicial advance of the past quarter-century, from desegregation to reapportionment, was based on unconstitutional...
...says Borges in a conversation with his younger self. "Russia is taking over the world; America, hampered by the superstition of democracy, can't make up its mind to become an empire." In Utopia of a Tired Man, an in habitant of the future lives on a featureless plain, eats cornflakes and tells a visitor from another century, "We have neither dates nor history . . . rereading, not reading, is what counts. Printing - which is now abolished, since it tended to multiply unnecessary texts to the point of dizziness - was one of man's worst evils...
...plain that television, long considered more of a weapon for a President than for his adversaries, is double-edged. Dissent on almost any level ricochets instantly from the far reaches of the nation to the Oval Office. Presidential TV Aide Rick Neustadt says that in the old days a President could make a controversial announcement in the afternoon and know there could be no public answers on television until the next day: to set up cameras and process and edit film took too long to make the evening news. But new technology has made instant response a fact. Carter...
...priests and lay leaders of the million-member Orthodox Church in America gathered in Montreal's gray stone Cathedral of St. Peter and St. Paul to choose a new primate last week, the tensions between the church's old-country past and New World present were plain. The cathedral's choir insisted on singing in Old Church Slavonic, eschewing the English now used in most O.C.A. parishes. When it came time for the creed, however, one of the visiting priests began chanting hesitantly in English, "I believe in one God ..." Joyously, the entire congregation joined him. Soon after...
Then there was the touchy question of how to list the President. Nicknames are not permitted in the Green Book, but the White House nixed James E. Carter Jr. and insisted on just plain Jimmy. Sniffs Mrs. Murray: " 'Jimmy.' Now really!" Indeed for her, Washington is just not the same these days, thanks to James E. Carter Jr. Says she: "Doing away with Ruffles and Flourishes and Hail to the Chief! What does he accomplish by making everything so commonplace...