Word: silents
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...COLUMN of flame: Vegas is the most unbelievable of cities. From the air, the solemn, silent desert appears to have split a wayward seam, spewing forth a hidden cache of tawdry jewels. Bingo, Nevada style...
...love a neurotic lush, flashing back to times when he could have been a real contender or raised a family but for his damning insecurities, Tully finds no personal tranquillity. He moves from job to job: tops onions and sacks nuts, hoes tomato fields with Negro migrants whose silent endurance confounds and defeats him. At the end of his labors, he is no farther from torpor than when he started. The Stockton park even cuts down the shade trees under which laborers sleep in the evening heat. With irony too strong to be humorous, Tully comes closest to nature while...
...extraordinary political fact of America in the early 1970s is that politically we are a collection of warring minorities with no Real, Silent, Middle America, Conservative, Centrist, Liberal or other kind of majority presently operative. There is increasing evidence that the first principle of the old politics, embodied in Roosevelt's New Deal, of putting many different groups, races, religions and regions under one permanent party tent may not work any more...
...wonder of the year. A right-wing Republican by background and a Nixon follower on most issues today, Buckley ran on the Conservative Party ticket in the nation's most consistently liberal state. More than any other major candidate, he made the social issue work, drawing enough of a Silent Majority vote with an approach summarized by his motto...
...need-a common charge. Yet it is easy to fault the welfare state now that its benefits are taken for granted. What about those outsiders-blacks, for example-who still yearn to sample its delights? Are their stomachs to be denied for the sake of their souls? Mumford is silent on the subject. It falls outside the angle of his vision. He is persuaded that the overcentralized society cannot be reformed or modified, only dismantled...