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...mounting tide of hatred and violence, of obstinacy and impatience and disillusionment is leading to a breakdown of traditional values in a society that has for generations been revered for its respect for justice, humanity, law and order. Nowhere do I see the leadership that might steer the nation away from its disastrous course...
Most Southern Democrats are highly suspicious of Muskie. Here, the Muskie bandwagon has to steer around the chuckholes of Southern conservatism. In Georgia, party pros were upset by an apparent Muskie snub during a trip he made to the state in December; old-line Georgia whites disliked his escorting Mrs. Coretta King to church. He has some following in Alabama, but has yet to campaign there. Several Mississippi delegate votes that could go to Muskie depend on who wins the current dispute between a black-liberal coalition and party regulars who lean to Henry Jackson. Arkansas delegate votes will...
...college's own students learn in their two-year course of study how to steer teenagers' attitudes away from "bourgeois" careerism and alleged intellectual elitism. One method is to dirty school-children's hands with frequent stints of manual labor. The young future teachers must themselves engage part-time in labor...
...flat but never dull, his characters are compellingly stamped with their limiting individuality, totally unable to be more or less than they are. Silver Street's Tony Lonto, for instance, cannot help being a good cop any more than he can keep from making a futile effort to steer a young prostitute into a respectable job as a waitress. Case Load's Detective Mose Hamilton sees only punks in the world he polices, and the sour vision inevitably makes him a mean...
...such a world instead of writing about it. A Wisconsin-born son of middle-class parents, he intended to make the Army his career. But while serving as a staff sergeant in Kansas, he was thrown into the stockade and eventually given an "undesirable" discharge for stealing a steer-an offense that he admitted but claimed was a lark...