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...late 1960s, some young people torn between competing values, between striving for meritocratic success and fearing both success and failure, became leaders of the contrameritocracy, even in some cases calling for open admission to Harvard College," Riesman noted...
Hughes now teaches political science at Rutgers, and the early sections of The Living Presidency read like notes for a course on the Constitution. There are the 55 delegates sweating away in Philadelphia in 1787, torn between fear of tyranny and the need for strong leadership. They hated the memory of monarchy and feared Executive power, but were encouraged by the person and probity of George Washington. They urged that the President be appointed by Congress. But there was also talk of calling the President "His Highness." Finally, institutionalizing indecision, the tired delegates left the presidential powers largely unspecified...
Cambodia. This war-torn Southeast Asian country is on the threshold of national liberation. Criminal American air strikes, which have reached new peaks of barbarism in the past several weeks, will finally end at midnight tonight. A flurry of peace rumors is blowing out of Phnom Penh, Peking and Washington, but even a last minute face-saving settlement cannot disguise the fact that American imperialism has lost another...
...badly as it is possible to run one; and after such treatment the crowd's ill will was excusable, if not justifiable. Most had survived a crush through eight small turnstiles at which there was no separation between people who had tickets and people who didn't--fences were torn down; cops were attacked, and finally the whole crowd shoved toothpaste tube-style past any foolish authority that might have attempted to control it. The mob psychology was amalgamated Woodstock in perversion: we are all one and no one is going to stand in our way. The music belongs...
Burundi is a land of luxuriant beauty and berserk violence, torn apart by one of those tribal conflicts that are so elusive to an outsider's understanding. Determined to uphold a centuries-old feudal hegemony over 3,000,000 Hutu tribesmen, the well-armed Tutsi overlords, who number no more than 600,000, unleashed a violent pogrom last year. At least 80,000-and perhaps as many as 250,000-Hutus were killed. In May this year the slaughter revived in the southeastern part of the landlocked hill country (area: 10,747 sq. mi., smaller than Belgium). The latest...