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In the Bush-Quayle synecdoche, attitude, symbolism and code words stand in for real action and accomplishment. The Bush Administration is short on both coherent programs and resources of leadership to approach the problems. An elaborate rhetorical porch, with gorgeous traditional columns, fronts an empty house. In any case, Presidents...
AFTER MONTHS OF PENNY-ANTE POSTURING, THE stakes in the presidential campaign moved sharply higher as Bush and Clinton blew some rhetorical smoke over the volatile issues of race, class and domestic neglect. So stark a reminder of the challenges facing the nation might have helped focus an erstwhile inchoate...
Those who did not see Camille Paglia last March 19 missed on the great rhetorical performances in my 40-plus years at Harvard. But the speech also had substance, and it was this: Today's radical feminism knows nothing of love or of sex, and so knows nothing about women...
While Clinton's desire to spread Western ideals is less than perfect, his rhetorical vision offers a stark contrast to Bush's actions. At some point in every general election campaign -- and no matter the state of the economy -- voters pause to consider the candidates' foreign and defense policies. When...
Sit-ins, boycotts, petitions, open letters to the community, rallies, pickets--these are disruptive protest measures, but that's the point. They shake up a system that needs to be rattled in order to progress. These methods bring attention to a problem the students feel very strongly about without being...