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...Only Sop. Suddenly the rest of labor's legislative program is in deep trouble. A prime example: repeal of Section 14B of the Taft-Hartley Act, which permits states to outlaw the union shop. Congressional leaders, smarting from the common-situs debacle, are unlikely even to introduce a repeal bill. There are other indications of labor's rapidly declining political clout. Carter passed over the AFL-CIO'S choices for Secretary of Labor (John Dunlop) and Secretary of Defense (James Schlesinger). He also has named New York City Human Rights Commissioner Eleanor Holmes Norton to head...
...real problems at hand. As if to further insult Quad residents, Fox suggests that a dining hall be constructed at South House at a cost of approximately $400,000. This part of the proposal, meant to be a sugar-coating for a bitter pill, is actually an old sop that has been promised for years; it should therefore be examined warily...
Doth frighten only milk-sop mewling boys...
Some liberal leaders, however, are still wary about Carter. Said Joseph Rauh, former chairman of Americans for Democratic Action: "The question in my mind is whether the choice of Mondale means a turn to the left or is simply a sop to liberals." Added Tom Hayden, a leader of the antiwar demonstrations at the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago: "Carter represents the flip side of Democratic division. Once there was the war. Now there is bland euphoria. Some liberals have great expectations, but he could just try to restore trust by soothing without delivering...
...their weaknesses. He is mysterious, vaguely dangerous. They know he is not a poet--he confuses the husband, Lewis Fielding, with the author of Tom Jones--but that is about the only thing they know. He is intriguing to them in their boredom and he is a sop to their material guilt. Berger bluntly tells the husband that he, the stranger, is doing them a favor by sponging on them and thereby quieting their uneasy consciences. In addition, this complete intruder appeals to the husband's fears about his wife's faithfulness. Fielding the writer would rather make the adultery...