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...opportunity in the next four years to demonstrate the virtues of its old openheartedness when it is practiced in imaginative ways. But if the party merely reverts to a reflexive New Dealism, it may only be an opposition that proves the maxim formulated by the late social theorist Ernest Becker: "A protest without a program is little more than sentimentalism-this is the epitaph of many of the great idealisms...
...other important contests, Sen. Herman Talmadge (D-Ga.), head of the Senate Agriculture Committee, overcame accusations of corruption and an official Senate "denouncement" to defeat opponent Mack Mattingly, while incumbent Sens. Alan Cranston (D-Calif.), Ernest Hollings (D-S.C.), Robert Dole (R-Ka,) and Paul Laxalt (R-Nev.) all marched to convincing victories...
...Jersey New Mexico New York Alfonse D'Amato-R North Carolina Outcome Uncertain James Hunt Jr.-D North Dakota Mark Andrews-R Outcome Uncertain Ohio John Glenn-D Oklahoma Don Nickles-R Oregon Bob Packwood-R Pennsylvania Arlen Specter-R Rhode Island Jospeph Garrahy-D South Carolina Ernest Hollings-D South Dakota James Abdnor-R Tennessee Texas Utah Jake Garn-R Scott Matheson-D Vermont Outcome Uncertain Richard Snelling-R Virginia Washington Slade Gorton-R John Spellman-R West Virginia Jay Rockfeller-D Wisconsin Outcome Uncertain Wyoming
...political process has been very much overreformed," Ernest R. May, professor of History, argues. "The effort to get rid of corrupt influence was carried so far that it has prevented people who really care about politics from having any voice. People used to be able to have a greater voice by their contributions of time, effort, money and ideas." For better or for worse, the parties and the professionals have lost their grip: the choice, says Harvey C. Mansfield '53, professor of Government, "has gotten out of the hands of responsible characters...
...with the Covenant also have full time pastoral or administrative duties and were unavailable for comment. The steering committee, which consists of Humberto Cardinal Medeiros of the Roman Catholic archdiocese, Bishop Edward G. Carroll of the United Methodist Church, Rabbi Herman Blumberg of the American Jewish Committee, Luster, Fr. Ernest Serino of St. Catherine's in Charlestown, Fr. Walter Waldron of the Cathedral of the Holy Cross in the South End, and Dr. Virgil Wood, dean of the African-American Institute at Northeastern University, still meets at rotating locations each Thursday to discuss ways to make the Covenant work...