Word: shortsightedness
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IT is the opinions of those middle-class voters which present the greatest obstacle to enactment of minimum income legislation. Whatever else they do, election-year Congressmen simply cannot let their constituents think that the poor are "getting away" with anything. The portion of the American Middle Class that sees...
With more fervor than felicity of style, John Roche, the White House's staff intellectual, declared: "The A.D.A. has backed away from the nonsupport of totalitarianism." United Steel workers President I. W. Abel, whose union has been contributing some $10,000 annually to the A.D.A., wired National Chairman John...
Future-Fan. That maiden attempt, though not terribly encouraging, was an echo from three decades ago, when Day-Lewis and the rest of the famous Oxford circle (W. H. Auden, Louis MacNeice, Stephen Spender) rumbled with even louder social comment. Like other "horizon-addicts and future-fans" of his time...
∙FOREIGN RELATIONS. Another place not to cut is the Peace Corps, dollar for dollar the nation's most successful venture in foreign affairs. The House Appropriations Committee wants to squeeze the Peace Corps budget from $115.7 million to $105 million-a shortsighted trimming that would reduce the number...
Sir: Yes, there is nothing to do but call out the troops-after rioting starts. No, I am not shocked at "police brutality"-after rioting starts. But rioting would not start if the Negroes' road to better living were not blocked by so many million white clods-shortsighted, selfish...