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However, the most significant "by-product" of Watergate is the realization that we must decentralize the functions of government as much as possible, Richardson said. "An increasing remoteness and impersonality, a kind of opaqueness has grown on the part of government which simultaneously makes us feel shut out, voiceless and incapable of exerting any real impact on the forces that most directly affect our lives," he said...
...Pearson-as he proudly notes-who first reported such things as General Patton's notorious slapping incident, Richard Nixon's questionable finances (in 1957), and the ruthless tactics of the House Un-American Activities Committee. As, in Pearson's words, "a voice for the voiceless," the column at its best was a kind of national ombudsman, most notably during World War II, when it exposed instances of brass-hat bungling...
...Landau '45, who later was killed in naval action in the invasion of Lingayen Gulf, the Philippines, the column attacked a "back-handed diatribe" in the Boston Herald, demanded resumption of gridiron hostilities with Yale, and said other things which made people wonder whether the Service News was as voiceless as it pretended...
...operates in a kind of social-literary tradition that includes figures as diverse as James Agee and Plutarch. Most of his work is devoted to giving a forum to the voiceless; The South Goes North, like his other works, is the transcribed conversations he has had with hundreds of people. His work demonstrates his skill at getting the natural poetry of America's downtrodden to express itself more than it exhibits his own considerable writing talents. By talking to people as people instead of as sterile percentages, Coles paints faces on the nation's oppressed and allows the full dimension...
...remain the same, irretrievably wedded to their petty vices and their tepid virtues. For them, the prison camp is a change in milieu, not a change in character. Such is the breadth and depth of Solzhenitsyn's vision that he chooses to be the voice of these voiceless and mediocre many. Without ever resorting to formal religious terminology, he says in effect that each of these humdrum souls is precious and equal in the sight of God and ought to be so treated. This is the j'accuse that he hurls in the face of tyranny. Furthermore...