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...crowds at this most venerated shrine in the Americas, but on Dec. 12, the Day of Guadalupe, the crowds turn into a tidal wave of humanity. This week for the first time the day is being celebrated in a huge new basilica, a structure of such size and strident modernity that it raised some fears among the faithful that the Virgin might forsake her sanctuary...
Harvard libertarians also split with Ergo over its frequent sallies beyond the realm of politics. "Randians are too moralistic. They believe in absolute standards--Rand's absolute standards--and sometimes they get a little too strident," Donal Rucker '78, a member of the Sons of Liberty, says. In the thousands of pages Rand has written, she carries her philosophy of "rational self-interest, egoism,. individualism, and capitalism" beyond its obvious application to social structure, into fields like art and personal conduct. Ergo holds that only romantic art is good art, for example. A recent display of neon sculpture by Boston...
...explicit socialism distinguishes In These Times from the politics of numerous hip-capitalist papers like the Village Voice, or the Real Paper. And its low-key style makes its stated concern with democracy more credible than leftist papers whose strident rhetoric gives anti-capitalism an authoritarian tenor...
...This week, Brezhnev carries his wooing of East European leaders to Bucharest. It will be the first official visit to Rumania by the Soviet leader since he succeeded Nikita Khrushchev as party boss twelve years ago. Rumanian President Nicolae Ceausescu has long offended Moscow by his frequent and often strident proclamations of his regime's independence from the Soviets. In recent months, however, relations between Rumania and the U.S.S.R. have somewhat improved, as is indicated by the Brezhnev visit. Also significant is the fact that Ceausescu has allowed a Warsaw Pact summit meeting to convene in Bucharest during...
Representative Thomas P. O'Neill Jr. also overwhelmingly defeated William A. Barnstead, a candidate who tried unsuccessfully to capitalize on anti-busing sentiment around Boston. Barnstead's tactics and rhetoric were far more strident and divisive than Robertson's, however, and it is encouraging to see that the voters rejected Barnstead's candidacy as well. O'Neill, soon to be elected Speaker of the House, did not emerge from the campaign altogether unscathed. Because of his position of national leadership, O'Neill's record, especially his foreign travel at government expense, has come under increased scrutiny. O'Neill has withstood...