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...Spartacus Youth League Non-Negotiable Demands Award: to a Quad House candidate. His poster says, in four lines of boldface type, "Make Harvard hear you. Equality for the Quad. Total Divestiture from South Africa. End to sex discrimination on campus...
...Reagan campaign has just completed a study of the youth vote and has decided to schedule more campus appearances in order to take greater advantage of his surprising popularity. On a swing through the Midwest last week, Reagan was accorded a reception by 2,000 students at Ohio's Bowling Green State University that his spokesman described as "the most enthusiastic we have ever encountered." Said Reagan, to earsplitting applause: "You know, your generation is really something. You've made love of country fashionable again...
...appeal to young voters is the improving state of the economy. "They like the kind of notions Reagan gets across, like growth and job opportunity," says Teeter. "They're rejecting this whole idea of limits, that somehow the pie is getting smaller." Democratic Pollster Dotty Lynch agrees: "The youth vote feels the economy is strong, jobs are available. They are giving Reagan the credit." Peter Lund, 20, who is taking a semester off from college to work for the Illinois Republican campaign, is convinced that among students, the job market outweighs anything else. Says he: "They want to know...
Others are skeptical about an enduring shift. "The youth vote is reacting to what it perceives as a healthy economy and to the mythic leadership of Reagan," says Democratic Pollster Hart. "It is not a bellwether for the future." Murray Fishel, a Kent State University political scientist, notes that young voters are more liberal on social issues than Reagan or his party. "Students do not support the Republican platform on issues like the environment or the Equal Rights Amendment," he says. "I think the shift is toward Reagan and not Reaganism." But whether fickle or faithful, the enthusiasm of young...
...Terkel's army of disparate witnesses generally agrees that the defeat of Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan was an unconditional virtue. But the years since 1945 have taken a toll on that good feeling. Korea, Viet Nam and the rat race slowly eclipsed the enthusiasms and certainties of youth. Former enemies became allies; old comrades-in-arms are now adversaries. Robert Lekachman, an economics professor and Army survivor of the Pacific meatgrinder ("I computed my regiment's casualty list. It was 140%"), echoes the book's dominant theme: "It was the last time that most Americans thought...