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...same time, we hope the Democratic Party will also view the Reagan mandate for what it is rather than rush to embrace a more conservative agenda in a singleminded quest to regain the White House. American voters--even many of those who gave Reagan the thumbs up on Tuesday--still support Democratic stances on many of the issues of the day. As of now, there is no evidence that a Democratic lurch toward the right is necessary--let alone morally justifiable...
SEEKING RENATURALIZATION. Zola Budd, 18, bashful, barefoot, adopted British runner whose dreams of Olympic glory ended in defeat and pain when she collided with American Archrival Mary Decker; in an application to regain the South African citizenship she so swiftly surrendered last spring in order to compete in Los Angeles as a Briton and circumvent the Olympic ban on her country's athletes; in Bloemfontein, South Africa. The move effectively ends her international running career and the lucrative endorsement deals that might have accompanied...
...cyclical. Every 20 to 30 years, they say, there is a flurry of liberal activity, followed by its exhaustion, a regrouping and then another flurry. They maintain that the Reagan administration is simply presiding over a national rest period, like that of Eisenhower, in which the country can regain its national jubilance. The liberals must wait it out until we possess enough confidence to resume our battle with the social diseases...
...narrators themselves from a sixteen-year old chemistry students to a middle-aged fraternity housemother, each struggle to discover or regain, their distinct identify, Ultimately, they seize upon the same potential solution--conscious identification with a famous name. (For John Dillinger, his own name.) Through this reflected or retracted glory they try to escape the squalled nature of their own lives. A nameless drama teacher dreams of the time when she taught James Dean "to kiss... and to die." A young woman writes to her missionary lover missing in China (John Birch) without hope of a reply. She writes...
While the Democrats seemed unlikely to regain an outright majority in the Senate, which they lost four years ago, they hope to reduce the G.O.P. margin from its present ten seats to as few as one. In the House, the Democrats currently have a 99-seat margin, and Republicans have hopes of whittling that down by as many as 26 seats, which is the number they lost in the 1982 midterm elections. That could re-establish the working majority of Republicans and conservative Democrats that Reagan enjoyed right after his election. It was that ideological marriage of convenience that provided...