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Democratic in numbers, but many members are Southerners representing stubbornly anti-union constituencies. Nor do traditional party alliances signify much to scores of freshmen and sophomore Democrats who were elected by appealing to moderate Republicans and independents. "Remember," says a political analyst at Common Cause, the liberal lobby, "a lot...
But he didn't have quite enough faith in the old pattern, so he re-ordered it to make more sense. The Acts, though a noble effort, fails because Steinbeck refuses to accept the irrationalities of questing struggle and fate in Arthur's day, and by implication in ours. But...
Why are blue movies condemned by the bluenoses? How is it possible that blue skies signify happiness while the blues represent a descent into lowdown misery? Once in a blue moon seems more than often enough to raise such questions, and the philosopher who does so is obviously in the...
At every Commencement, the President of Harvard University welcomes new graduates of the College "to the company of educated men and women." Having witnessed this ceremony for many years, I must confess to an increasing sense of unease with the phrase. A bachelor's degree may signify little more than...
In these civilizations, at puberty, boys are taken from their mothers and placed in isolation in a womb-like situation in a tent. After many days they are pulled out by their heads through their fathers' legs. At this recapitulation of the original birth experience, they babble like babies. But...