Word: sakes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bought the whole shot. My head got straight; I went to Columbia-after I said I would never go to any of those phony Ivy schools-and even tried a year of law school. I wore a Tattersall vest. I even wore a hat, for God's sake. Not a red hunting cap, I mean a hat. A whaddyacall it. A fedora. My father used to rate me like a New York pollution inspector: good, acceptable, unhealthy. I became a Good...
...distaste for mechanization, my preference for the four-footed over the four-wheeled ("A horse is at least human, for God's sake")-well, that has become a contagion by now. As has that yearning for Thoreauesque communal living in New England: "We'll stay in these cabin camps and stuff like that till the dough runs out . . . We could live somewhere with a brook and all and ... I could chop all our own wood in the wintertime...
...Easy humanism, then, lies in the belief that these individual problems can be ignored for the sake of larger panaceas...
Just imagine what would happen it the Democratic candidate were to take his court beyond the miasma of Washington this year, say to Cleveland or St. Louis, and there establish his White House. Rents certainly would be cheaper, the view perhaps clearer. For old time's sake the candidate could still schedule a couple of speeches a week in distant cities, give those hours to the archaic evenings of smoke and oratory, pump the hands of people at the fences and endorse the local candidates. There would remain the need to make the far-off cadres of campaign workers...
...staking out a new position on the Left. It is, in a certain sense, a choice between two poles set up by James Q. Wilson in The Amateur Democrat. Democrats can seek to be "professionals" who see their main purpose as winning elections for the sake of winning and who use "issues" as means to election. Or they can become "amateurs" for whom democratic politics is (at least in their own minds) a matter of public choice between candidates who really do disagree on matters of substance. In such a politics, issues are not means but ends in themselves. What...