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...generation of young??furniture users is emerging, and savvy designers at the International Contemporary Furniture Fair (ICFF) in New York City last month were busy catering to it with sleek high chairs made of colorful foam and playful quilts covered in herds of elephants and pods of dolphins. Indeed, mixed in among the requisite Herman Miller chairs and LED lights were plenty of bassinets, pint-size beds and bookshelves from cutting-edge kids-gear companies like Offi, ducduc and Netto Collection. Some visitors were even toting toddlers and babies as they perused the stands. "This is the first time...
This signature Neil Young??hit has turned bathetic with age, but Wright, a relatively unknown jazz singer, rescues it with a dry, smoky and spooky rendition...
Thus one serious casualty of the war has been the U.S. military itself, the instrument of that will. Abnormal requirements for instant manpower?and the disaffection of so many of the educated young???lowered the services' standards to some extent. Said one senior Army officer: "Calley would never have become an officer if we were not so short-handed." As the war ground on, the protest movement infected the Army itself. "Fragging" became part of the new vocabulary of the '60s. Occasionally units refused orders to go into combat. "Grunts" smoked marijuana openly at their firebases. Thousands came home contaminated...
Republicans smile at such thinking as a species of selfdelusion. Nixon, they argue, is just now in the process of mobilizing an extraordinary new G.O.P. coalition from blocs pirated from, or abandoned by the Democrats?the South, Catholic ethnics, blue-collar workers, the noncollege young???along with more traditional Republican voters. Says Kevin Phillips, author of The Emerging Republican Majority: "McGovern represents a new radical elite that has taken control of the Democratic Party and alienated much of the traditional party structure in the process...
...recession, had eventually to suffer metal fatigue. "Systems die, instincts remain" observed Oliver Wendell Holmes. Unable and unwilling to rely on institutions or revolution, the U.S. has fallen back on pure feeling. The reaction is ominously reminiscent of the '30s and '40s, an epoch beyond the memory of the young???who nonetheless repeat its rhythms...