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...LIBERALS are starting to stage their comeback. Virtually unnoticed by the press, 1100 avowed liberal Democrats gathered in Washington two weekends ago to blast the policies of President Reagan and deny the allegations that liberalism has died. The occasion was the national convention of the Americans for Democratic Action (ADA), where the largest crowd since 1974 had gathered to celebrate the "Eleanor and Franklin Roosevelt Tradition." In speech after speech, liberal congressmen, prominent academics and labor leaders attacked Reagan and reaffirmed their belief in the values and the coalition of Roosevelt...
...liberal legacy is challenged now as never before. We will not allow one minority group now in power to take away all those precious things that Roosevelt brought us 50 years ago," Father Robert F. Drinan, the ADA's president, declared in the convention's opening speech. Sol C. Chaikin, president of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union, labeled the convention a symbolic renaissance and called for "a new prophet...to restate and renew the faith" on the one hundredth anniversary of Roosevelt's birth. And other speakers--including Parliament member Shirley Williams--joined their voices to his in calling...
...past year has indeed been good for the ADA. It was just over twelve months ago that the Reagan landslide sounded liberalism's death toll, but since then the ADA has greatly expanded its membership and solidified ranks fractured in 1968, when it endorsed Eugene McCarthy for President to the chagrin of many labor leaders. The ADA has gained 5000 members in the past year, and a strong youth movement has erupted on many college campuses. Charlie King, national director of the ADA youth caucus, predicts a resurgence of 60s student activism; meetings of the youth caucus at the convention...
...fiction is complex and elusive, sometimes maddeningly obscure. The prose is lush and polychromatic, the plots ingenious. He fashions the most exquisite narrative structures out of the most fragile allusions and symbolic patterns, and ices it all with an arch sense of humor. His late works, such as Ada, hint at layers of meaning that will keep scholars guessing for decades. His works will probably last: Lolita is already available in an annotated critical edition. Still, there is something missing in all of Nabokov's work. His starchy aestheticism comes through as cold, crystalline, and almost inhuman. We wait...
...ADA chapters will not sponsor forums or speackers, Spalter said, adding that he hopes to develop "a consortium among Massachusetts students in which we can lobby effectively...