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Portlanders do not profess to know what will happen, but a dominant feeling among them is one of faith in the American governmental system and its ability to withstand any shock...
...standard, the Arabs seem hopelessly divided, ranging from the reactionary monarchy of Saudi Arabia's King Feisal to the quasi-Maoist regime of South Yemen. The extent of their differences can also be measured by their varying attitudes toward Israel. The military dictatorships of Libya and Iraq profess undying enmity for Israel and call for its extinction. The smaller states of Jordan and Lebanon, which border on Israeli power, favor a quick and peaceful resolution of differences. Egypt, under Anwar Sadat, agonizes over its past humiliations but has no wish to resume fighting, and this is largely true...
...social scene, like Mary Sanford, who claims to have been one of the first to make money for charity at parties that everyone was going to anyway. "Women like to put on their ball gowns. They can't wear them to a little private party, can they?" Others profess to avoid it as much as they can. Mrs. Algur Meadows (General American Oil) much prefers to play golf, especially on Ladies' Day at the Everglades Club, but she gets "caught up in" the (strictly ladies) luncheon and (mixed) dinner party circuit. "There are almost too many parties," complains...
...SURPRISE our distinctly secular age has become enamored of music conceived for a faith deeper than most of us profess. Our vague Enlightenment rationalism grants us a tolerance for a variety of religious expressions; and even the intense orthodoxy of a composer like J.S. Bach does not put us off, but perversely enhances our wonder at his accomplishments. The specifics of religious identification within a work like Bach's Christmas Oratorio are lost to us. Yet the sincerity of its conception (and of course the skill of its composition) are as evident now as in the 18th century...
...could go on: America has failed Dave Rysky and the white working class just like it has failed the black ghetto residents to the north that Dave and his friends profess to hate so much. America educates and manipulates some people for college and others for steel mills and does not care to give everyone an equal chance. And middle and upper class liberals at Harvard and Stanford and NYU and all over call the Dave Ryskys bigots and Wallaceites and ethnics and racist fools. I could go on about how wrong anti-blue collar racism...