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...experience of the last ten years, largely, which seems to inform the Public Interest conservatives' viewpoint. As members of the government and influential social scientists, many of them constructed and supported the anti-poverty and welfare programs and the Vietnam policy which led to popular revulsion. More importantly, the government of the '60s was headed, for the first time, by conscious elitists--Bundy, the Rostows, McNamara, and Ball, many of whom the essayists in the Public Interest cite in their papers and served with on faculties. Rather than admit the failure of elitist political leadership cut off from vulgar opinion...
Leslie Sullivan, organizer for the medical area workers said last month the request was made because her group felt that "a decision from the Boston Board would be a negative one" from the group's viewpoint, and that members would not accept Fuchs's decision as binding...
Certainly these are hard times for everyone and perhaps your newspaper desperately needs the extra revenue an advertising supplement can bring in. But I expected a newspaper like yours--one with intelligent writers and an unusually well-informed radical viewpoint--to come up with something more provocative. Not only don't you attack the sickening commercial aspects of Christmas, you exploit them...
...through volunteer organizations and civic committees. "Because of my past experience I had no problem presiding," says Hance. "Through volunteering, I had to learn discipline, work habits, and a broad knowledge of the community. As a volunteer you get to see government from the outside. There's a better viewpoint there than for a man tied up in his profession...
...Hance's way of thinking, that viewpoint also helps women govern. "A woman's way of looking at things in government is a different approach. She is more aware of juvenile problems because she is more aware of juvenile problems because she lives with the children. Her way of looking is not necessarily better, just a different perspective. She's less afraid to ask questions, and not embarrassed to admit that she doesn't know something...