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Jackson and Robertson both preached against the evils of sex before marriage. But when presented with evidence that their eldest children had been born within weeks of their marriages, both were forced to admit that they had participated in pre-marital sin...
...media for use in my Kennedy School study group, entitled, "Race and the Media." I knew I could rely upon these items to bolster my premise that the national and local news media remain deeply implicated in what New Jersey Sen. Bill Bradley likes to call America's "Original Sin," which, in another time, was called the race problem...
...area where TV espouses unmistakably conservative values is the very one that Quayle chose to focus on: the family. Though single-parent households are common on TV (as they are in real life), the family bond is nearly always portrayed as strong and indispensable. If TV has any prevailing sin, it is its sunny romanticizing of that bond: no matter what the conflicts or crises, family love makes everything come out all right. If Dan Quayle were to look at TV a little more closely, he might find the stuff of Republican dreams...
Stanfield Professor of International PeaceRobert O. Keohane, who was a student of Shklar'sin the early 1960s, said her work in the "eloquentdefense of liberalism" could be explained in termsof her experience; she was not one to take liberaldemocracy for granted...
...Sin is a cheerless novel of familial envy...