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...highly narrow in outlook. The whole spectrum of U.S. opinion has come down hard on these groups. The traditional establishment correctly perceives them as destabilizing, offering alternative values and lifestyles not easily controlled by the usual middleclass institutions and therefore dangerously unpredictable. In rejecting the acquisitive values of the mainstream the cults reject America. The political left and remnants of the '60s movements also attack the cults with a passion; after all, the cults focus attention on spiritual matters, self-realization, mystical attainment, and divert attention from the ever-delayed but inevitable revolution, or at least from reform and restructure...
...Committee and a provisional supporter of SALT II, will be replaced by former Airline Co-Pilot Gordon Humphrey, who opposes SALT and says he plans to be the "biggest skinflint" in Washington. Haskell and Hathaway were two of the most liberal members of the Senate Finance Committee. A few mainstream liberals were elected to the Senate: Bill Bradley in New Jersey, Paul Tsongas in Massachusetts, Carl Levin in Michigan, Donald Stewart in Alabama. But they do not have the experience or the seniority to replace the members who were defeated...
...China. We consider it important that China be brought into the mainstream of detente. But all we get from the Chinese is their saying that war is inevitable. If your military relationship with China changes, we will have to reassess the situation. If normalization of your relations with China is part of a general move toward détente, it will be understood as such. Our relations with Peking may also change in time. But if you normalize with China in a way that has definite military and political undertones of an anti-Soviet nature, it may be seen...
Silberman is left with the unconsoling conclusion that until blacks and the poor are brought into society's mainstream, there is not a great deal courts and cops can do to cut down on crime. He finds a few examples of the poor taking a stake in improving their own communities, but more thoroughgoing solutions will take more money?and patience?than the country has so far been willing to give. "It's a gloomy book," admits Silberman. But an enlightening...
...decision and the absurd steps he takes are fine, but after he gets all cranked up, he simply and predictably caves in again. These trivial moments of neo-existential despair wear kind of thin. Alter's prose, given to somewhat untailored lushness, merges with the decidedly out-of-the mainstream setting to produce an interesting novel that doesn't always have a whole lot under the surface. But the threadbare spots in his carefully woven story get by on the strength of the writing alone...