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Actually, the voter's dilemma tends to be exaggerated by the current hunger for a presidential hero, an exciting idealist (or at least simplifier), who could strip down the era's complexities and articulate a national vision. What frustrated voters may overlook is the fact that great Presidents have generally been more pragmatic than idealistic. Lincoln stayed aloof from the moral absolutes of the abolitionists-and he, not they, abolished slavery. In this sense, an undecided voter might well focus on the candidate who seems most capable of putting together a viable political coalition, working with Congress, mobilizing...
...There is hunger on the great plantations...
...HUNGER. A grim Scandinavian-made portrait of a writer on the skids in a big city, with two outstanding performances by Per Oscarsson and Gunnel Lindblom...
...MOON FOR THE MISBEGOTTEN. The ghost of the past haunts every serious Eugene O'Neill drama, upsetting the appetite of anyone who hopes to partake of the feast of life. In this play, three emotionally starved characters hunger for a love that is denied them...
...hunger continues. There have been sporadic efforts to solve it--the most recent by the Southern Rural Research Project (SRRP). SRRP workers, working from their headquarters in the black section of Selma, Ala., spent the summer of 1967 making a quantitative survey of just how many people were hungry, why they were hungry, and what could be done about it. Their work led to the production of several reports and to the CBS television special 'Hunger In America...