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...campaign speech, none was ever delivered. After reciting the issues ?Viet Nam, the economy, welfare reform, crime, Nixon's 1968 promise to "bring us together"?he limns "the kind of society we want," with peace, safety, no generation gap. "For the sake of our party, for the sake of our future, I ask you to march again as we marched before." Massachusetts Senator Edward Brooke declares flatly: "Kennedy is running just as hard as Nixon is at this point...
...good for the country" seemed like a worthy precept to everyone, except all those strident moralists and crackpot spiritual athletes who thought otherwise. The artist, of course, was always in this small group of dissidents, and, if he didn't go off to Europe seeking art for art's sake, he spent most of his time at home pointing out the dilemmas of a society whose sole motivation is blind greed. It was the playwright who exploited these dilemmas best, partly because other artists avoided the plight of the "normal" person altogether. The poetry and novels of the post...
...exposed to what blacks have learned to hate?the rapes, ripoffs, robberies and dope addiction that have turned all too many inner-city schools into blackboard jungles where learning is less important than learning how to survive. Beyond that, whites who have moved to a suburb for the sake of its school system resent the fact that courts they have never seen and judges they did not elect are telling them that their children cannot use those schools...
...seems for the moment to be the most effective and efficient method of providing minority groups with equal opportunities in education. No one?save possibly school-bus manufacturers?is in favor of "busing for the sake of busing," the chimera that Richard Nixon belabors. Blacks, after all, have as strong a sense of neighborhood schools as whites do. But as Nicholas Hood, a black city councilman in Detroit, puts it: "It's pragmatic. We don't have any desire to be close to white people just for the sake of being close to white people. We want the same thing...
...Your Essay on "Styles in Martyrdom" [Oct. 11] was timely and interesting. One point about martyrs seems to be ignored these days: the true martyr does not go around looking for martyrdom. Neither, as a rule, does he make dramatic, newsworthy gestures for their own sake...