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Because Meese rarely interjects his own views into discussions and his memos are objective, he is accused of having no political ideas of his own, a charge that he emphatically denies. Meese calls himself a "practical conservative," meaning that he favors less Government but is not bound to a rigid anti-Government ideology. "I have a lawyer's sense that your purpose is to serve your client," says Meese, a former prosecutor. "My service to Ronald Reagan is to see that he gets objective advice and to filter out my own personal viewpoint. But the idea that...
...Russian art now at the Hirschorn Gallery in Washington, D.C., the curators referred to photographs of the artists' own installations in arranging the works. Paintings are clustered in corners; a series of small sketches is hung perpendicular to the wall; exhibition display cases are constructed of unfinished plywood. The rigid order of the ICA show reduces the potency of the objects...
...that even though respondents felt that Foot had "rather extreme views," he was more "in touch with ordinary people" than Conservative Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. The Labor Opposition believes that by the time the next election is called, the Conservative government will be in such deep trouble over its rigid monetarist economic policies, which so far have not cooled a raging inflation nor prevented a sharp rise in unemployment, that Labor can prevail with just about any candidate. Said Political Analyst Robert McKenzie: "It is possible that the next election could be won by Labor even if the party...
Urban malls in the '80s [Oct. 20] may well "save" cities, but unless each new project is unique to its community, our downtowns will be doomed to the same rigid, stale architecture and merchandizing that suburban malls now suffer...
Will it work? And how far can it go? These are the questions that the Chinese keep asking as their leaders search for ways to modernize the world's most populous nation. In the past two years these leaders have abandoned a rigid ideology in favor of a relatively freewheeling pragmatism. Communist economic policies have been modified to give greater initiative to local factories and farms. The government has offered new latitude for artists and writers, and it has risked sending thousands of scholars and scientists to study in the capitalist West. Taken together, these peaceful changes could ultimately...