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...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...
...will remember that the critics write long summaries in seamless prose, and are apt to get a bit drippy when the right nerve-end is touched. You might remember even more: that Gilliatt likes cultural detachment and civility (in order to justify Peckinpah she evokes Brecht, for God's sake.) Or that Brackman had his adolescence in the late '50's, and never has recovered. After reading both of them, you'll have spent some pleasant moments with fine company. But the harsher might wonder what brought them to this business in the first place...
Cowboys lost three of their first seven games this season, Landry announced that for "the sake of continuity" he would use only one quarterback: Staubach. Roger led the Cowboys to nine consecutive victories and straight into the Super Bowl...
...what suited her: a religion of "service rather than salvation," as De Hartog puts it. He retells how this judge's wife organized the Quakers in prison, sending them letters and survival kits consisting of socks, mufflers, weevil-proof biscuits, a jar of prunes for the bowels' sake, and of course a Bible. In the most affecting chapters of the novel, De Hartog dramatizes Margaret's voluntary descent into the dungeons of Lancashire Castle, where she lived with imprisoned children, including an eleven-year-old boy condemned to be hanged for murder...
...racial minorities did not render themselves poor. If their material well-being must be assured. If Mark advocates human liberation let him join the fight against injustice as it has been perpetrated against the minorities. He should not resort to libertarian abstractions and perversions of humanitarianism for the sake of calumniating SDS. Peter Shane...