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This crisis of participation, a chief trait of the Orwellian world, has not occurred as a result of the natural, uninhibited growth of the state. It has been carefully engineered by the ruling minority of our society. The last lines of 1984 shows an approximation of our own situation: "He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother." There is only one major difference between Oceanin and the U.S. The techniques of government self-perpetuation are different. Our leaders don't torture U.S. citizens, although they explicitly support torture of innocent citizens in many other countries. There...
With her style and presence, Geraldine Ferraro was by far the liveliest of the four nominees. Intense, good-humored, always listening (a rare trait in a politician), she surprised Americans with her fast-mouthed New Yorker's style. Still, although Ferraro was a first-class campaigner, it was not she but Walter Mondale who made the decision to put her on a national ticket...
...Paul S. Sarbanes (D-Md.), Princeton '54, broke the bank by picking at midnight, after a day on the campaign trait. It didn't hurt, though, that the person who lined him up. The Crimson's credit manager, happens to be a high school classmate...
...best cartoonists seek not just a likeness but some dominant trait that sums up the man. The result can be at war with the cartoonists' political sympathies. "I have a conflict," says Don Wright of the Miami News. "Basically, I'm rooting for Mondale, but sometimes he comes across bland and wimpish." Oliphant draws him with "sleepy eyes bringing out the boring aspects." The Los Angeles Times's Paul Conrad says, "I'd like to see him do better and don't take any relish in making him look incompetent. I'm despondent these...
...light. But what the psychiatrists are doing is more dangerous: they want to impute psychological deficiency to those in the dark about the nuclear peril. In an article on their nuclear task force work, Mack and Beardslee in effect generalize this psychological deficiency as a cultural trait of the U.S. populace: "The fact that there is so little information available about how young people feel about nuclear issues that effect their lives so vitally suggests that we adults have entered into a kind of compact with ourselves not to know. We suspect that the implications of what we are doing...