Word: reaganisme
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The death penalty still bothers most of us. But if economic growth and the expansion of cultural freedoms made our predecessors more idealistic, economic stagnation and the divisive politics of Reaganism have made the current generation of college-age students less so.
There will be two more debates and plenty more name calling, attack advertising and scare stories. When it gets rough, as it will, it will be easy to forget that the nation is poised to change direction. The end of Reaganism seems at hand. George Bush, the vestigial Ronald Reagan...
The result of all this high financing and finagling is a redistribution, from poor fans to richer ones, of the baseball-going experience -- jock Reaganism. The luxury boxes introduced at the Houston Astrodome in 1965 are now a moneymaking fixture in most parks; the Toronto Blue Jays mint $35 million...
Nothing could better demonstrate how former sources of strength have become signs of weakness than the scheduling of a convention speech by Ronald Reagan. That would until recently have been considered a surefire way of rallying the troops with memories of glory. But every reaffirmation of Reaganism traps Bush more...
Were this a book about politics or culture, such glorification of the past might truly be pernicious, as was the case with Reaganism. Since, unlike politics, baseball will never resurrect the substance of by-gone eras, the effect is merely sad. Wilber has interviewed a few legitimate baseball stars, men...