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...American Revolution may have started here in 1775, but the Gingrich Revolution completely missed Massachusetts...
Like Thomlin, other Americans are expressing their frustration on two fronts. At the polls last November, voters told Bill Clinton they were unhappy with his progress and urged Newt Gingrich & Co. to try something different. ``When you have a wholesale change of government during a period of peace and prosperity, that means the populace thinks something is really wrong,'' says James Newby, who retired this month as police chief of Dayton, Ohio. But there is another revolution, one that is happening in homes and neighborhoods and statehouses. Disgusted with American institutions ranging from the post office to the press, citizens...
...Gingrich thinks the new attitude is a function of resurgent idealism, rather than profound discontent, then he hasn't spent enough time with voters like Thomlin. What motivates them is a deep distrust, not only of authority figures but also of the national picture of peace and prosperity. In a Time/CNN poll conducted in early January, 53% agreed that the country is in ``deep and serious trouble,'' compared with 40% a decade ago. By most obvious and traditional measures, America is doing well. Unemployment is the lowest in five years, the economy is growing, and crime has eased somewhat...
...patronage of unprofitable arts and cultural activities tilted in the 1960s away from private donors toward an increasingly activist Federal Government. The results of the 1994 elections ensure that the cultural debate of 1995 will center on reversing that trend. House Speaker Newt Gingrich and the new Republican majorities in Congress are determined to chop off funding to the National Endowment for the Arts, which last year distributed $146 million to 3,800 organizations and individuals, and to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which in 1994 meted out $285.6 million to the Public Broadcasting System and its 345 member stations...
Critics charge that Gingrich is playing right-wing politics, trying to stifle funds for cultural projects that he and his allies dislike. Nonsense, the Speaker has replied. Why should all taxpayers be forced to contribute to elitist art or TV programming that most of them would not choose to see or watch? Beneath this debate rest some questions that could have enormous consequences for cultural life in the U.S. One need not be a Philistine to wonder whether the Federal Government should be in the business of setting aesthetic standards. But can the marketplace, by itself, do a better...