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...Congress, despite the President's quest for a broad consensus, the division of opinion to some extent has continued to follow party and regional lines. Republicans and Southern Democrats generally favored resuming the bombing, while Northern Democrats and liberal Republicans mostly hoped to prolong the pause...
...Consensus v. Challenge." Neither a political conservative nor a dogmatic states-righter, Burns, a history professor at Williams College and sometime adviser to John Kennedy, sees much that is good and necessary in what has happened. Yet he fears its future implications, when what he calls the "corruption of consensus" may ultimately cause the Government to become "flabby and complacent and lose the cutting edge of energy, initiative and innovation." He predicts that "the passion will have disappeared, and increasingly the compulsion of purpose will be dissipated...
...once widespread view that homosexuality is caused by heredity, or by some derangement of hormones, has been generally discarded. The consensus is that it is caused psychically, through a disabling fear of the opposite sex. The origins of this fear lie in the homosexual's parents. The mother-either domineering and contemptuous of the father, or feeling rejected by him-makes her son a substitute for her husband, with a close-binding, overprotective relationship. Thus, she unconsciously demasculinizes him. If at the same time the father is weakly submissive to his wife or aloof and unconsciously competitive with...
That view will be vastly different from the one that Johnson beheld twelve short months ago. Then, riding the tide of an unprecedented victory at the polls, the President looked around and saw a nation ripe for his brand of consensus politics. Then he had something to offer almost everyone-voting rights for the Negro, a tax cut for the wage earner, continued prosperity for business. Since then, the nation's problems have grown more complex and the solutions less easy. Where once compromise and cajolery worked, many hard choices are now required-choices that could alienate some elements...
Pioneering Steps. The consensus remains: public employees simply cannot strike. All this raises a new problem in labor law-how to bargain effectively with workers who cannot be allowed to walk off the job even though the very nature of public employment tends to spur strikes. In contrast to private industry, public employees deal with administrators who lack full power of the purse, and a strike may be the only way to impress those who control the money-mayors, governors, legislators. When the public employees happen to be vitally needed nurses, teachers, transit workers and the like, they have...