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...Robert Lesser North Wales...
Should the left--primarily Blacks, students and feminists--stay home, it will send a message that it cannot be counted on to always back the lesser of three evils. It will also hand the election to Ronald Wilson Reagan, the bogey-man in the closet whose image every speaker this week has summoned in an effort to keep the troops in line. There are those who say a Reagan presidency would be the best thing that could happen to the left--four years of fascism, they reason, might turn Americans into leftists again. The people who talk like this most...
...innovative rigor. Audiences have felt, as many critics have, that Schoenberg put truth before beauty. They have often found him easier to take at second or third hand, as refracted through the more immediately appealing work of Student Alban Berg, for instance, or any of dozens of lesser figures...
...embarrassing number of occasions. It worked, and the delegates kept quiet. The convention officials made sure the "important" media types (the press was arranged in a convenient caste system with t.v. at the top and college publications roughly on the bottom) got on the floor, and that lesser lights stayed off. The media operations center run by the Republican National Committee fed the journalists an endless series of press releases. Other "publications," like "The Dick Lugar News" and "News about Bob Dole" mysteriously appeared alongside prepared texts of speeches. Thrilling reading, these...
Other Weathermen who have surrendered have been treated leniently, and there was speculation last week that Wilkerson would be allowed to plead guilty to lesser charges. Meanwhile, ironically, three former top FBI officials, including onetime Acting Director L. Patrick Gray, are awaiting trial on charges of having the agency illegally tap the phones and break into the homes of friends and relatives of fugitive Weatherman members...