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...unwinnable--and meaningless--game, the Democrats should be starting to build around ideas that will produce real victories a few years down the road when Reagan's policies start to sink the economy. The first task is differentiation; Democrats must start to distinguish themselves from the unsound ideas of the Republicans, enough so that on the next big issue AFL-CIO president Lane Kirkland won't be wandering around mumbling "a pox on both your houses." Those ideas must be clear enough so that people who still care about the dreams and simple notions of Roosevelt and Kennedy and Johnson...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: No Last Hurrah | 8/4/1981 | See Source »

...including the best-selling Condominium, and eighteen other novels that precede this one in his Travis McGee mystery series. His eighteenth Travis McGee, The Green Ripper, won the American Book Award for Best Mystery of 1979. Yet, people seem anxious to write him off as a hyperactive, but fundamentally unsound producer of escapist fiction...

Author: By F. MARK Muro, | Title: Descent Into Hell | 6/30/1981 | See Source »

...university that does not accept the legislature's criteria for teachers. Samuel H. Beer, Eaton Professor of the Science of Government, said he feared the bills would curtail free discussion of ideas and create an atmosphere of fear in the classroom. A Crimson editorial, calling the Iannell proposals "inherently unsound," claimed that universities can only function "when they are free to set their own standards for the conduct of their faculty...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 1956 Academic Freedom? | 6/4/1981 | See Source »

...often been channeled toward measures that do not address the true injustices and make the continuation of essential government services nearly impossible. Our own state, Massachusetts, once known as the most liberal in the nation, made such a mistake in the passage last November of the understandable, if completely unsound, Proposition...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hard Rain Falling | 6/4/1981 | See Source »

...current problem has to do with the irresponsible, unsound and outrageous fiscal policies of this administration." Edward F. King, main speaker at the rally and the author of Proposition 2 1/2, added...

Author: By William J. Jason, | Title: Protesters March on City Hall, Rally Against Mayor's Layoffs | 4/28/1981 | See Source »

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