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...civic decline that both Bill Clinton and Bob Dole have been exhorting Americans to pull up their socks. (Rhetoric is free; programs cost money. Besides, who isn't for volunteerism?) Clinton has used a series of Executive actions regarding teen smoking, gun sales and truancy as a paternal prod--in effect, making the Federal Government the village patriarch who reminds members of the community of their obligations to one another. Last week Clinton introduced a schoolhouse-repair program, which is meant to spur local investment, not as a public-works effort but as a communitarian one. "It would help those...
This group included such men as Time and Life publisher Henry Luce, future Secretary of State Dean Acheson, future head of the Central Intelligence Agency Allen Dulles, columnist Joseph Alsop and others who felt the need to prod the Roosevelt administration toward greater support for the Allies...
...them, in part because they work. Furthermore, the reformers argue, raising the money to pay for the ads consumes the candidates' time and corrodes their independence. Since these ads won't go away without a repeal of the First Amendment, the next best hope is to counteract them, to prod the candidates into standing up straight and revealing their positions rather than just reviling their opponents...
...photographer companion Paparazzo by telling them, "You're a lot of vultures! Don't you respect anything?" But even the celebrity-obsessed Paparazzo would be shocked at what some of his spiritual and nomenclatural descendants are doing nowadays. Updated with video cameras, they lie in wait, they stalk, they prod, they provoke--all in the hope of selling embarrassing footage to the tabloid-TV shows. They are not paparazzi but an aggressive new breed of videorazzi--or, as Los Angeles-based celebrity photographer Phil Ramey proudly dubs himself and his colleagues, "scummerazzi"--and they have been very active lately...
...this respect every event is a historical singularity. But cracks in a world which we must strive to make perfect surround us. And not just cracks, but major breaches of ethics and humanity. The enduring power of the Holocaust is its ability to wake us from moral slumber and prod us into action...