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...psychological backlash against the press has also helped Nixon. From the moment that Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward began their pursuit of Watergate in the Washington Post, some Americans have subscribed to the theory that a liberal press was out to undo the results of the 1972 Nixon landslide. The implications of that belief are troubling: they carry the suggestion of a sort of cultural civil war, between Nixon's America and a suspect elite that trafficks mostly in information and services...
...significant level of Anglican reunification with Rome at present seems very remote, if not impossible. But the Pope and Archbishop may have begun a process that could undo the inertia. Aside from future reunification, the "dialogue of charity" among separated Christians, the Pope claims, may already be contributing to an atmosphere of world peace. As he said in Liverpool, "We have to resolve important doctrinal issues. Yet already mutual love, our will for unity, can be a sign of hope in a divided world...
...problems. Whether that reactive tendency, to block what a President proposes, is perceived as good or bad depends, of course, on the observer's political point of view. In any case, Congress this year will not produce many dramatic new legislative achievements. Reagan, in fact, has asked it to undo much of what its predecessors have done...
...author has strained to pack too many ironic asides to the paragraph. In Nobody's Angel he allows some breathing space between wordplay. Unfortunately, a powerful sense of place and character is not sufficient to sustain an entire novel. The hero's sentimental nihilism and unfulfilled longings undo the hard work that has gone before, and the final epiphany-the revelation that there is no revelation-is too dim to illuminate Nobody's Angel. McGuane has not so much made the Old West new as buried many of the romantic myths under a modern veneer of laconic...
Groups like the Gay Students Association (GSA) provide gay people with a support group which helps undo years of negative conditioning. For me, a GSA meeting was the first chance I ever had to meet real people who felt the way I do. Admittedly it was not an easy step to take. I can remember pacing around Phillips Brooks house for hours trying to decide whether or not to go into that first meeting. For me, that step was essential. Feelings which I had suppressed for so long could now be expressed openly and honestly. It was a startling experience...