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...appeal, his popularity fueling itself. His surge was not altogether political: a CBS News exit poll in Vermont found his greatest strength among self-described conservatives, while a poll in Massachusetts found that he is preferred most by liberals. Quickest to embrace him were upscale members of the baby-boom generation, known as "initial tryers" to professional marketers. "If you've got a new concept or a new product," said Atlanta Pollster Claibourne Darden, "those are the first people who are going to examine it and evaluate...
Gary Hart embodies a lot of contradictions, and he knows it. He casts himself as the political avatar for younger Americans, yet he was born a decade before the baby boom, and turned 30 in the 1960s, just when people over 30 were not to be trusted. The presidential candidate whose campaign he managed in 1972, George McGovern, ran against the Democratic Establishment from the hard left; now Hart is running against the party Establishment, not exactly from the right or the left, but from off center...
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...should be able to maintain the tight-fisted control Rosovsky kept on the budget deficits, which have largely subsided since swelling up to several million dollars in the early 1970s. And Spence's aptitude for computers should serve the Faculty in good stead, as it capitalized on the technology boom that is revolutionizing certain aspects of college education. In his capacity as chairman of the Economics Department. Spence has shown a grasp for the problems of graduate students, who many believe are owed an increase in attention over the next few years. In sum, from Bok's perspective...
They came by the millions when times were good, from backward villages in Anatolia and the Punjab, from the Caribbean and North Africa. For the most part, they were welcome, even sought after. They constituted a willing and indispensable Lumpenproletariat for Western Europe's postwar boom, ready to do work no one else wanted to do. Their large families, their mosques, their exotic costumes and customs were merely transitory inconveniences. One day they would vanish: the "migrants," the gastarbeiters, the travailleurs immigrés would simply go home. But they stayed, and a new generation grew to adulthood: dark...