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...appears the very model of the Southern politician: balding, rather stout, a devoted Democrat who dutifully worked his way up through party ranks. He spent twelve patient, hard-working years in the state senate and four years as lieutenant governor. In a gubernatorial campaign rife with racial overtones, West displayed a commendable combination of traditional Southern eloquence and a considered program for his state's future. His opponent, Republican Congressman Albert Watson, repeatedly played on the racist theme of unrest in South Carolina's desegregated schools. West calmly denounced such emotional exploitation and mapped out an intelligent program for solving...
...Tonk Woman" or "Gimme Shelter," it is a damn fine song to dance to, filled with those old Chuck Berry-style guitar licks that sound so good on a car radio. Fortunately the vocal is somewhat garbled so that one can avoid listening to the lyrics which, besides being rife with the Stones' usual sexism, are racist to boot...
Once arrived at the Moores' house in County Down, Sarah finds the family rife with potential martyrs: Colum Moore, an English professor trying to resist public political involvement; his devout, naively nationalistic wife, carrying their eighth child and breeding vulnerability; her sister, Una, an angry activist spouting Marx and Marcuse who lives like a nun among grotesque religious relics. Even Sarah's old lover has become a marked man as a Protestant journalist championing the Catholic cause...
Full-page ads appearing in magazines and newspapers across the country carry the boldface head: YOU'RE BEING ROBBED! The text explains: "Commercial flimflammery is rife throughout the nation and the American consumer is being victimized as never before." What to do about it? Subscribe, says the ad, to Moneysworth, "your own personal consumer crusader, trusted stockbroker, and chancellor of the exchequer-all in one." Some 80,000 people have already forked over $5 for a "special, introductory" one-year subscription to the fortnightly. Question is, are they getting their money's worth...
Rumors are rife on the campus that BU-which closed a week early lastspring because of a rash of false fire alarms and firebombing threats-may close within a month...