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CURRENT WISDOM Grapevine Weekly Magazine Observations o f another concerned citizen: To the Editor: The militant government of the United States under the tyranny of Ronald Reagan is a rogue...
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...December 1983] Syracuse Post-Standard The heroic r e p o r t o f another modern Quixote: Bonnie Bridson, unlicensed but still dangerous: To the Editor: I went to the Women's Peace Encampment this week...
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...If it is liberalism to feel empathy for the suffering, to work to improve the human condition, to realize our ecological responsibility to all forms of life, to aspire to the ideals of truth, freedom, peace and justice, then call me liberal [August 30, 1984] Washington Post More prissy observations from Haynes Johnson, but one o f the Republic's many prophets o f matriarchy: Down in Texas, the president and vice president don cowboy hats and pose alongside young cheerleaders displaying bare midriffs, belly buttons and ample bosoms...
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...CURRENT WISDOM Grapevine Weekly Magazine Observations o f another concerned citizen: To the Editor: The militant government of the United States under the tyranny of Ronald Reagan is a rogue elephant terrorizing the world community...
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...September 8, 1984] Los Angeles Times Lapidary pontifications and observations o f a stone-headed sort from Dr...
...August 5, 1984] Wall Street Journal The quality o f American justice 15 years into a spree o f reform politics unsurpassed since the ride o f A t t i l a : Mr...
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...It could even be that more and more folks like me who never thought of themselves as liberals are so turned off by the rhetoric of the liberal-haters that we might just realize we are liberals and proud of it...
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...July 31, 1984] Washington Post New depths o f Liberal Guilt plumbed by D r . Richard Cohen, t h e Washington Voltaire who always taps out his sagacious lines with violin music just o f f stage: The exploitation of Vanessa Williams continues apace...
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...May 24-30, 19841 The Nation Chivalry denied as the real he-man o f Campaign '84 asserts herself with that inimitable cosmopolitan wit: But even in the midst of an uproar that would have made less stalwart candidates quail, Ferraro continues to be taunted by men seemingly unable to cope with the fact that the Vice-Presidential nominee is a woman...
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...July 25, 1984] The Progressive Sit t o u g h - - t h e r i g o r o u s p o l i t i c a l analysts at the Progressive asseverate a far-sighted policy for bringing the Age o f Aquarius to the land o f the P o l i t b u r o : However indirectly, the people of the Soviet Union do have a voice in shaping policy--and even Americans can have an impact on the decisions made in the Kremlin...
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...I hope we don't have a liberalhating majority of voters in the South or the nation, as the Administration and its letter-writing friends are counting on...
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...But it was already apparent that they would not soon achieve full power in either country and that, if they ever did, they would not behave as Orwell predicted they would in his book 1984...
...We haven't gone after little old ladies who had barrels of hazardous waste dumped in their backyards," he says...
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...And maybe if they win the game, they're allowed to pat each other on the butt, or to hug each other when they reach the end zone...
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...August 8, 1984] University of Iowa Spectator Gastronomic outrage from a noted epicure, Ralph Nader at the University o f Iowa: Madison Avenue's most successful advertising ploy is the hot dog, that you can sell such s l o p - - f a t , water, miscellaneous debris, including Reagan's latest allowable additive, crushed bone, and rope string-and have you like it, and defend i t . . . What if all that brilliant advertising was directed toward nutrition, consumer awareness, and regulating, or toward educating people to get the best medical care they can...
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...There, says Joel S. Moskowitz, who heads the state's hazardous-waste program, the state recently pursued a "distinctly non-wealthy couple" who bought a small house in rural Northern California--and later found the property contaminated with polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs...
...In all these countries, the communist leaders avoided foreign wars and achieved great and almost continuous economic progress...
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...George C. Wallace of Alabama and his national campaign director in 1970-71, I helped the Gov'nuh blame it all on those "integrating, scallywagging, racemixing, pointy-headed liberals who can't even park their bicycles straight...
...A few days later we see another political rally in Texas, and a female Lone Star State politician draws thunderous roars from a crowd when she introduces Ferraro by saying, in her thick Southwest drawl, "We don't need cheerleaders to stir enthusiasm like Ronald Reagan...
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...August 1, 1984] National Catholic Register Neo-Christian mysteries extruded by Rosemary Radford Ruether, swami-inresidence o f the Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary and a very competent cook: Instead men must recognize patriarchy for what it is, as the incarnation of the spirit of rape, genocide and war, of ecocide and necrophilia, and flee from it for their lives...
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...I went because the cause of world peace has now become more important to me than inconvenience and ridicule...
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Vol. 17 • November 1984 • No. 11
