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...heartening) fear of going into debt, a distrust of the educated, the fancy and the self-important. They also have little patience (like Coles himself) with catch-all locutions: "the Silent Majority," "white backlash," "Middle Americans." Still, the book is very successful in demonstrating that even on the gut issues of prejudice, pocketbook and politics their views have remarkable breadth and subtlety...
...Nixon plainly wants to put his own stamp on the voluntary agencies begun by his Democratic predecessors, and the merger into Action, by absorbing VISTA into a larger, less controversial whole, may blunt the attack. Some think that the reorganization is actually a Machiavellian maneuver by the President to gut VISTA and the Peace Corps, although both programs can continue effectively if the Administration really wants them to. Shuffling bureaucracies about means nothing in itself...
...graduate student in government at Columbia, who grew up, as he says, "a few years before the thought of changing the system from within became unthinkable." He is caught in the middle between Punch and her parents, sensitive to the horror that Punch has seen, yet still with the gut feeling that the way to solve problems is to be polite and diplomatic and bring everybody together again without rocking the boat...
...sure, the Vice President, currently in the statesman-like pose of revenue-sharing salesman, has not completely abandoned polemics (see THE PRESS). Dole insists that he is not trying to replace Agnew as what he calls "the No. 1 chopper and gut cutter." Yet in a sense, he is the new Agnew...
...place exudes friendliness, Hub Theatre people are highly philosophical about what they are in the business for. They see themselves as spreaders of the gospel of "life," preachers of the essential goodness of man; that "man can and should be a determiner of life rather than a victim." Gut-level communication with their audiences is crucial. But in its production of The Rimers of Eldrich, the Hub Theatre creates an emotional distance that belies their theatre, the text, and the purpose of their company...