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...cyclical nature of inner-city poverty and the way it is documented in the documentary "Hoop Dreams" ("Losing Life's Game," Opinion, Nov. 18, 1994). Unfortunately, I must take exception to his implications that the three film-makers, Steve James, Frederick Marx and Peter Gilbert, exploited the two players, Arthur Agee and William Gates...
...Arthur Schlesinger Jr. has posited that the American political mood sometimes evolves in 30-year cycles, swinging from activism to conservatism and back again. But consider the electorate's volatility during the past three years, from 1991, when George Bush's approval ratings were at historic highs, to Bill Clinton's election to the recent Republican landslide. Evidence indicates that we are operating under 30-week or possibly even 30-day cycles. Thus the odds are virtually even that November 1996 will hit an activist phase. A caveat: the Leap Year Day in February 1996 may invalidate these calculations...
...Arthur Schlesinger Jr., adviser and historian of Presidents, notes dryly, "I'm sure everyone in the White House is studying the Truman experience." A few months ago, in fact, it seemed that the entire Administration was reading David McCullough's Pulitzer-winning biography Truman. They are no | doubt reviewing pages 525 through 719, which offer the cautionary tale of the last Democratic President to scare away so many midterm voters that he ended up facing a hostile Congress followed by a fairy-tale sequel for the Democrats: the same President riding that very Congress, which he called "the do-nothing...
...Historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr., Wall Street Journal...
...DIRECTOR: Arthur Hochstein...