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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...unwarranted assumptions comes off better than the equivator. He would deal with our question on Hume not by baffling the grader or fencing with him, but like this: "It is absurd to discuss whether Hume is representative of the age in which he lived unless we first note the progress of that age on all intellectual fronts. After all, Hume did not live in a vacuum...
Whiggery has its virtues. Passage of the tax bill is a good indication that a hyperactive President is not always necessary to useful legislative progress. Ultimately, the question is whether a Whig's approach can deal with the great internal problems of the U.S. today. Federal authority expanded from the New Deal onward largely because a vacuum existed at lower levels of government and in the private sector. Crises existed that only Washington seemed willing to attack. Today the problems may be different, but they are no less urgent. One test of Nixon's philosophy will come when state...
Archer's professional progress is also impeded by his, and his creator's, strivings to bring home to each and every hapless character the wrong turnings in his past. One longs for Chandler's jaunty, corpse-chasing Philip Marlowe: "Murder-a-Day Marlowe, they call him. They have the meat wagon following him around to follow up the business he finds...
...labor involvement in minority causes now seems a bit more promising-at least at the national level, if not among locals and individuals. The new Alliance of Labor for Action, formed by the U.A.W. and the Teamsters, suggests that some unions may become belatedly re-engaged in social progress. Still, white union members are not likely to open their ranks to Negroes until some of their own basic fears are calmed. One major anxiety is that automation will replace workers. Another is the boredom that afflicts many assembly-line workers at age 30 or 35. Unions, corporations and Government clearly...
...short run. Ultimately, it will require not only inspiring national leadership and a more efficient and equitable use of present resources, but also an in crease in those resources. It will be possible only if it becomes clear that in a growing American economy, amidst continuing American progress, there is enough of the good life for everyone...