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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...continuing "cognitive dissonance" created by this gap breeds four responses--the intense moralism of the creedal passion periods, cynicism, hypocrisy (a denial that the gap exists, known under other circumstances as patriotism), and complacency. Relative deprivation amidst general prosperity, and increased numbers of politically active young people (who tend to moralism, becoming cynical, patriotic or complacent as they age) are among the possible triggers of activist phases of the cycle, which he says occur at about 60-year intervals...
...continuing so many expensive weapons programs, the Administration is committing the U.S. to enormous outlays in future years that, if experience is any indication, will swell even beyond the huge costs already forecast. Says Colorado Democrat Gary Hart, a leader of the "military reformers" who support increased spending but tend to oppose systems that threaten to grow out of hand: "The Administration is like a python devouring a pig. It's just got the snout now, but when the whole pig is devoured, there will be a huge bulge...
...entirely take place in the '20s"; President Ford is "like a relative you have to visit now and then, with nothing much to report. You know, he's still working at Prudential or Tool & Dye"; William F. Buckley's "more right-wing pieces tend to remind me of someone talking extra-loud to a rich relative who must be kept in a good humor. 'Big Government. I said, Big Government...
Whatever new paths are taken here will likely affect legal education across the nation because, as an so many other disciplines, universities tend to look to Harvard Law School for intellectual and administrative leadership...
...minority students, who as a group have been observed to score lower than whites, are victims not of a bias in the tests themselves but of "misuse of scores by some admissions officers." Systematic variations in scores, not only between whites and minorities but between richer and poorer students, tend to reflect different educational opportunities inherent in society, the report adds...