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...advertising blitz, though, the ASCs have proved to be a flop. Financial institutions were expecting All Savers deposits of up to $250 billion by the end of this year, but the total so far has reached only $46 billion, and customer interest is waning fast. There is no strong sentiment in Congress to renew the program when it expires in December...
...drowning under a tidal wave of sentiment of any sort on this Ivy League campus, folks. Generally, we're still the same set of over-achievers trying to map out productive lives and wondering how to mix into that some liberal politics without taking too much away from our private dreams. We're lucky, and most of us realize it. And a few are struggling with our consciences over how to fulfill our responsibility to do something that will benefit society at large...
...early to assess the domestic political impact of the antinuclear sentiment. Although impressive in size, the movement is still rather amorphous and politically unorganized. Democrats are pinning much of the blame on Reagan for the growing fears of nuclear war, and White House aides admit that indiscreet statements by the President and some of his key aides may have contributed to the anxiety. But Administration officials offer no apologies for their talk of a defense buildup, and do not plan to retreat. Says one White House adviser: "One of the prices you pay for raising the specter of Soviet nuclear...
Both Democrats and Republicans agree that the antinuclear sentiment is growing as a political issue. In Washington, at least, it is not yet seen as a truly pivotal issue, like the state of the economy, for this fall's election. "It is more like the environmental movement of the 1970s than the antiwar movement of the 1960s," says Robert Neuman, director of communications for the Democratic National Committee. "It is confrontational, and will probably not become a Democratic or Republican issue." Says Republican Political Consultant David Keene: "It's like motherhood and apple pie. Who's going...
Readers who enjoyed John Gregory Dunne's True Confessions (1977) know the author as a connoisseur of the raffish, the macabre and the sleazy. They also know how deftly Dunne snatches sentiment from the jaws of cynicism, and how he can cut a plot line with fine malice. But in his new novel, Dutch Shea, Jr., sentiment is savagely chewed and the free association of memory is substituted for plot...