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...State Department. In terms of economic ideology, Connally is an enigma: he recently observed that the Administration's attack on inflation could not succeed without wage and price controls, but he has not said what he would do instead. Democratic liberals in Congress feel his appointment spells doom for serious tax reform and for any real commitment by the Administration to the goal of full employment. But to Wilbur Mills of Arkansas, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee and the single most important power on the Hill in economic matters, Connally "is a very able...
What sets Buckley apart from so many other ideological conservatives, is his obvious class, the way he wears his education and inherited money with nonchalance. His manner exudes sincerity and good will. During the campaign he pronounced the usual warnings of doom, decadence and destruction by federal power, but he said these things without malice. Buckley could take a hard stand on campus dissenters, but, as one of his aides put it: "Jim was not the guy who was about to bayonet your kids...
Spiro Agnew, among others, has observed that the nation's media are dominated by doom and crisis; good news is no news, it seems. Now, for the Vice President and other frustrated optimists, there is hope-in the form of a forthcoming Sacramento weekly called The Aquarian Times, billed by Publisher Bill Bailey, a former adman, as "America's first good-news newspaper." The Times will ban ads for cigarettes and skin flicks. The first issue, ready next week, will list stocks-but only those that have gone up. The lead story will report that...
They have become, like the French decadents, our subtlest prophets of doom. Bill Knott's "colorless odorless tasteless miracles of lesslessness" are, like Baudelaire's spleen, symbols of the bloated, apathetic, decaying spirit of another botched civilization. In poems like "To American Poets," Knott aches for us to watch what we are doing. He knows there's no time left...
Closed Societies. According to Ardrey, every animal society-including man's-is "a group of unequal beings organized to meet common needs." A successful society will form a power hierarchy in which each individual knows and keeps his place; otherwise, relentless competition would doom to extinction any colony composed exclusively of top dogs. The individual is nothing, the group everything, Ardrey says. Hence, for example, it is not just the baboon or the human that evolves but the societies to which they belong...