Word: social
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...espousing a vision of America's future may be that there is no vision of America's future to be espoused. Citizen complaints suggest otherwise; if there is a general grousing point about the current 13, it is that much of the time they sound like tinkers or social science teachers, including candidates like Paul Simon and Pat Robertson from whom, for quite different reasons, the public might expect the expression of some grand comprehensive picture of national prospects. But, in fact, by speaking practically, the candidates may be doing all that is possible and advisable. Bruce Babbitt asks voters...
...terms of social ideals, the country may be reaching its natural limits as well. Incidents such as the Howard Beach killing in New York City serve to remind us that race hatred is ready to bubble up anywhere, but the fact that the nation almost universally responded to Howard Beach as a disgrace and an outrage suggests how much progress, not how little, the ideal of equality has made. Thanks to the ardor of three administrations, the necessary civil rights laws are in place and enforceable, and the nonlegalistic thinking about social justice has advanced immeasurably. Any Jew, Hispanic...
...product. The tawdry antics of the TV evangelists last year helped to encourage the faithful to discriminate between superficial and serious religion. Movies such as Broadcast News urge the triumph of substance over shadow, as does the popular television series L.A. Law, which has recently turned its hand to social-action stories and away from money, its founding muse. Tom Wolfe, who has forged a career out of the superficialities of the times, now produces a novel about vanity, sensing that people may be ready to condemn the vacant, self-celebrating life. The plague of AIDS, in its own dark...
Dole, bracing himself for Bush to run negative ads about his wealth and his wife's trust fund, was blind-sided by a Kemp attack on Social Security. Some 120,000 elderly Iowans received an official-looking brown envelope marked IMPORTANT SOCIAL SECURITY INFORMATION ENCLOSED; in fact it contained Kemp material lambasting Dole's efforts to freeze cost-of-living adjustments in 1985. Outraged, Dole stormed across Iowa, accusing Kemp of using "marginal" tactics "to scare old people." Kemp Strategist Roger Stone exulted, "When you're attacked, it means you're in the race...
...five candidates HRAAA is supporting this year--Michael Tanzer '57, PhD '62, Ephraim Isaac PhD '69, Nell Painter PhD '74, Evelyn Fox Keller PhD '63 and Ruth Messinger '62--will, I am sure, show an equivalent range of interests and social justice goals for the University. And the University administration, and uninformed and misinformed alumni/ae, will continue to shout "single-issue candidates." Chester W. Hartman...