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With Rush Limbaugh baying about the evils of university liberalism and Newt Gingrich proselytizing for prayers in public schools, it comes as no surprise that another item on the New Right's agenda has steadily gained steam in the last few years: book banning. And if a school district around Philadelphia is any indication, the consequences could be even more chilling than anything proposed by our new Congress...
Quite obviously, since the groups leading the charge are well-funded and chillingly well-organized. Not to mention the fact that they have support from some of the most prominent members of congress, including Jesse Helms and Newt Gingrich. And as Peck notes, many school district boards have become dominated by vigilantes such as Bartram, who joined the baord precisely because she was so inflamed by the literature read in area high schools...
...reflex. House Speaker Newt Gingrich uses the term elite as an all-purpose epithet, meaning little more than someone or something he doesn't like. Just since the election he has applied the term to directors of art museums ("self-selected elites using your tax money and my tax money to pay off their friends"), to the Bipartisan Entitlement Reform Commission ("driven by elite values"), to people who send E-mail messages supportive of President Clinton ("urbanites make up the Internet elite," according to a Gingrich spokesman) and, of course, time and again, to the "elite media" or "media elite...
...Newt Gingrich, once the naughtiest kid in town, now chief grownup of the House, is finding out what elders are always discovering about the generation behind them: kids just won't listen. When the Republicans flooded Congress a few weeks ago, nearly a third of their House majority was supplied by 73 freshmen. The shock troops of the revolution, they were hard to the right and unbeholden to the old order. Almost half of them had never held office of any kind before. Even so, they were presumably obliged to the new Speaker, who had nurtured them for years...
...working out that way. While even Bill Clinton is moving so briskly to the middle that his State of the Union speech last week gave Gingrich dozens of moments to stand up and applaud, the new Speaker is running into disputes with his own followers. Just hours before Thursday's final vote on the balanced-budget amendment, Gingrich had to summon a dozen freshmen House members to his office to pull them in line on one of the most important measures of the G.O.P. ``Contract with America.'' The freshmen were refusing to vote for a watered-down version...