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...make sacrifices. They don't have much that they can squander in that direction. But in the broad American middle class, and in the enormous generation that came of age in the '60s, that fought on both sides of the Viet Nam question, there is a reservoir of latent idealism waiting to be tapped. Gary Hart almost found it. Mondale and Ferraro may be able to do so if they are sufficiently imaginative and creative to devise the forms into which that idealism might be poured...
...nature. Alexander recounts in sickening detail the numerous incidents during which Cobb would unmercifully browbeat some poor Black busboy or servant. Cobb also had a streak of hot temper that plagued him throughout his entire career and afterwards, making him a host of enemies and dissolving much of the reservoir of good will that would undoubtedly have accumulated among fans and teammates owing to his spectacular on-the-field exploits...
Hart himself ventured a pretty good explanation last week. "What I think I may have tapped," he said, "is a reservoir much vaster than anyone ever contemplated, [a reservoir of] that pent-up, latent need to reidentify with national purpose." Hart, a canny political tactician, has taken full advantage of the gusher. He knew the media, eager for a loner-strikes-it-rich drama, would devote columns of type and hours of television air time to him. "It's like riding the wave," says Kathy Bushkin, his press secretary. "There's not much we can do to direct...
Unified church support for Jackson is still far from certain, but the potential is vast. The seven largest U.S. black denominations have nearly 17 million members in 63,000 congregations, and there are millions more blacks in other church groups. Attempts to tap this potent reservoir of support began in earnest last November when Jackson spoke to a Memphis convention of the Church of God in Christ. Since then he has been constantly on the move, giving articulate, passionate sermons in churches large and small, and raising funds in a manner indistinguishable from taking up a collection...
...political process. Duarte has also vowed to rid El Salvador of human rights violations, which are among the worst in the hemisphere. He proposes to eliminate the country's 2,500-member Treasury Police, the ill-trained and thuggish force that is believed to serve as a major reservoir of talent for the murderous death squads, who have added thousands to the estimated toll of 40,000 Salvadoran civilians killed since...