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Criticism that he was merely rejecting liberal values without offering a nonconservative alternative prompted Tsongas to expand his ideas into a book. He writes: "The core of this book is realism -nonideological, clear-eyed realism." It is devoted to the analysis of eight salient "realities" that will determine America's future: energy sources, Soviet aggressiveness, economic growth rates, finite natural resources, stirrings in the Third World, international trade, an overburdened environment and inflation...
Shaw makes a convincing case for the rituals-as-rehearsals, identifying salient features such as mock crownings and infantile behavior as proto-revolutionary consciousness. When he analyzes the crowds' obsessive hatred for Lord Bute and the equally irrational love for John Wilkes, the author deftly negotiates the problem of proving the nebulous concept of evolving crowd psychology. But in his enthusiasm for his thesis. Shaw treads perilously close to overstatement, and tends to ignore other parts of the revolutionary consensus that should likely loom larger than they do in his book...
...Mornings on Horseback finally lacks the salient characteristic of the Roosevelts-enthusiasm. In spite of Teddy's strenuous self-improvement and relentless selfdiscipline, McCullough finds something spoiled about the prig who talks of keeping himself "pure," for some "rare and radiant maiden" and postures for the camera as "the plainsman" in custom-tailored buckskins with dagger and sheath from Tiffany. The author appears to prefer Black Sheep Elliott, who, lacking what he called his brother's "foolish grit," collapsed under the responsibility of being a Roosevelt, although surviving long enough to father Eleanor, the wife...
...students are not the only people frustrated with Blacks at Yale. In a brief interview, Stokely Carmichael criticizes Black students for merely "giving lip service" to the salient issues of racial inequality. Finally, Blacks on the street, the last group of people interviewed, speak out. A New Haven resident wondered how much Blacks at Yale have done to help Black people as a whole: "If they've done something, it hasn't come out yet," he says. "They could help Black people," another comments, "but would they?" Many people question whether Blacks at Yale have indeed forgeotten them...
...category of its own, perhaps soon to be a new shelf in bookstores: "Cooking," "Jogging," "Post." Yet the writers of these tomes, for all their attention to the detail of personnel changes and serious analysis of every merger and serious analysis of every merger and acquisition, avoid the most salient factor in the Post's rise...