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...soaring, preacherly performance during the March on Washington. Some think of John Kennedy's Inaugural Address; yet as the '60s wore on, the go-anywhere-pay-any-price rhetoric of that bright January day on the New Frontier began to seem not only suspect but even a symptom of the emptiness of eloquence and the woes that fancy talk can lead a country into. Some, with even longer memories, mention Churchill in Fulton, Mo., in 1946 ("An iron curtain has descended . . .") or F.D.R.'s first Inaugural ("The only thing we have to fear is fear itself...
...Allison Krause, Jeffrey Glenn Miller, Sandra Lee Scheuer and William Knox Schroder are examples of how far our government will go to prevent change. Unless we begin again to think of the world as they and others who protested the war did, their deaths will be largely meaningless. One symptom--the Vietnam war--is gone, but the disease remains as virulent...
Social Worker Martin Trachtenberg, co-founder of a number of groups that support children of Holocaust survivors, several years ago began to notice one odd symptom: survivors' children were frequently overwhelmed by anxiety when facing some less-than-vital decisions, such as choosing a college or leaving home to move into an apartment of their own. Trachtenberg saw it as a fear of separating from parents; in the camps, separation was usually final and meant death. "Some struggled with going to college, but they did it," says Trachtenberg. "And when they got there, they called their parents every...
Labor's support of Big Business Day is a symptom of growing frustration with stymied organizing efforts and dwindling influence in a Congress dominated by corporate Political Action Committees. Although labor leaders still respect the role of large businesses in generating jobs, they have reached a new perception of an adversary relationship with management after the defeat of labor-law reform...
Wardell Pomeroy, co-author of the original Kinsey reports on males and females, is far more blunt. "It is time to admit that incest need not be a perversion or a symptom of mental illness," he says. "Incest between . . . children and adults . . . can sometimes be beneficial." Indeed the new pro-incest literature is filled with the stupefying idea that opposition to incest reflects an uptight resistance to easy affection and warmth among family members. Writes Anthropologist Seymour Parker of the University of Utah cautiously: "It is questionable if the costs (of the incest taboo) in guilt and uneasy distancing between...