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...child very probably will be born in the Third World, where nine of every 10 babies are born today, and where poverty, disease, hunger, illiteracy and unemployment make life a daily struggle for survival," Fornos told reporters...
Reagan bristles at the notion that he is not popular among the nation's poor and among those who think his policies are harsh and uncharitable. It is only "propaganda," he insists, that his budgets have cut heavily into federal programs for nutrition and hunger. "We were poor when I was young, but the difference then was the Government didn't come around telling you you were poor," he says, harking back to the tradition of community help from sources other than the Government. "My mother, God rest her soul, was the kindest, God-loving person I have ever known...
Reagan possesses a sort of genius for the styles of American memory, for the layerings of the American past. Wright Morris once wrote of Norman Rockwell that his "special triumph is in the conviction his countrymen share that the mythical world he evokes actually exists . . . He understands the hunger, and he supplies the nourishment. The hunger is for the Good Old Days --the black-eyed tomboy, the hopeless, lovable pup, the freckle-faced young swain . . . sensations which we no longer have but still seem to want; dreams of innocence before it went corrupt." Reagan also understands the hunger. He does...
...books on etiquette. "A wedding is a beautiful spectator sport. It pleases everybody immensely. And the presents do flow in." She thinks the resurgence of traditional weddings is "a rebellion against rebellion," a reaction to the free-form tribal rites of the Love and Me decades. "There's a hunger for a little bit of formality," observes Judith Martin, who as Miss Manners writes books of spiky social advice. "It's very natural to enjoy tradition, and it was phony and unnatural when people said everything that came before me was wrong." Setting sail in the prevailing wind and recognizing...
...next time I bite into a quarter-pounder with cheese, I'll know I did my part for world hunger...