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sonalities are insufferably gloomy, and where they ought to manifest sophistication and joie de vivre they reveal merely a dolt satisfaction in being slobs. Moreover, I am unconvinced that many of...
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...Routes in-to fantasy are provided not only by radio, TV, and print, but also by film, video cassettes, and specialized TV: cable networks focusing solely on entertainment...
...I only wish they would insist on the music of Cole Porter and lines written by middle brows with taste, say, the scribes at the New Yorker...
...Consequently, he would re-quest that the U.S...
...You're sure you can make it...
...But the hordes that seek escape into the ghastly fantasy world of popular culture refute them...
...A fine actor, very good politician, but his economic policies will cause a recession by 1987...
...I see," she said crisp ly, and got me my tickets with a professional contempt...
...These days, he said, "you say the same thing as Martin Luther King and it's labeled ultra-right...
...Lunch at the National Press Club with Wim Kok, rising star of the Dutch Labor party, one-time confidant of Lech Walesa, and according to our host a future prime minister of the Netherlands...
...No, not directly...
...In Kok's view, the public has not yet been heard from on the matter...
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...The struggle is serious because the advocacy of civil rights has been taken over by leftists and militant egalitarians seeking to implement their collectivist agenda by redefining "civil rights" to mean "civil privileges...
...There was a long silence after I gave the ticket agent my preferred date...
...And, though the champions of prosperity on the left and on the right may dispute me, it is obvious that prosperi-ty is incapable of satisfying the yearnings of millions of Americanos...
...We were ushered through oaken vestibules and introduced to Ed Meese and Deputy Attorney General Lowell Jensen...
...He was supposed to lay out a liberal agenda for the 1980s...
...He seemed a mite on the defensive...
...said the first fellow, "what about these guys...
...That last can't be right, can it...
...And though Kraft never again composed music of such sweetness, to his everlasting credit he remained a tolerant liberal, happy to do business with conservatives...
...Because I have a major problem with my committee," Thurmond replied...
...He waves this off as preposterous...
...No telephone calls please...
...Such internal division and lack of conviction contrasts painfully with the aggressive moral certitude of the collectivists...
...What about the missiles...
...Nobody's that dumb...
...Virgil C. Blum, S.J., Catholic League, 1100 West Wells, Milwaukee, WI 53233...
...He seemed to have come through the ordeal unscathed...
...Oh, sing it, mama...
...We strongly imply that our claims come ahead of those of everybody else...
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...A cop with a bullhorn gave them one perfunctory warning, then another...
...Kok's next stop: the United Nations...
...Candidates must have a firm commitment to the Catholic faith, to the civil rights of Catholics and the intestinal fortitude to de-fend those rights...
...So what's the first question thrown at him...
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...As former president of both the largest Dutch labor organization and of the European Union Trade Federation, Kok is in the U.S...
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...Weyrich recalled that Simpson went on: `I got Howard Baker to go to Jim Baker [President Reagan's chief of staff at the time...
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...The ruling center-right government has already agreed to deploy 48 cruise missiles in 1988...
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...The half dozen journalists assembled (pragmatists all, eschewing extremism of left and right) were wondering why senior government officials in Washington go to work so early...
...One of his ancestors (William Brad-ford) was on the Mayflower...
...Sir," she said at last, "are you aware that the Redskins are playing the Dallas Cowboys that night...
...I caught up with him in Santa Barbara, where he appeared with William Rusher, Warren Brookes, and Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn...
...I'm not as dumb as I look, asshole...
...No retreat...
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...Is Kok aware of growing sentiment in the U. S. for withdrawal from NATO...
...He was particularly interesting on the disingenuous tactics of the anti-constitutionalists in law and media who oppose Reagan's nominees...
...Reynolds and Meese clearly under-stand the problem, but Reagan seems all along to have conceived of his Ad-ministration as though it were a war-time coalition, with all points of view represented, so that he can negotiate with himself before negotiating with the Democrats...
...We are better than other citizens...
...Affirmative action, on the otherhand, entails numerical remedies which could very easily miss those who have been discriminated against...
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...Notoriously, Justice William Brennan doesn't accept this...
...Increasingly one sees normalization...
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...Has he stayed in touch with Walesa...
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...But none of it seemed to matter, finally, as I drove home from a friend's house after the Super Bowl...
...she said...
...He would regard the election of a center-left government as a vote against the missiles...
...Solidarnosc is finished...
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...Some of these celebrities are admittedly clever and accomplished, yet their personal achievements are secondary to thepublicity that enhaloes them and makes them attractive to the public...
...First Senator Mathias and now Senator Simpson has threatened to vote with the liberals if the Administration keeps sending up `controversial' nominees...
...In various respects his enforcement had "outstripped prior Administrations...
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...Then we woke up one day to find that "civil rights" meant something quite different: claims on government that can be made by specific, privileged groups...
...A spare, gaunt, bespectacled figure, he ate his scram-bled eggs but left his sausages untouched...
...A few more speeches like that and Brennan's ideological sup-porters will begin to wriggle with embarrassment...
...In the end the campaign succeeded...
...THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR MARCH 1986 9 adamant in demanding that it not be construed as seeking preferential treatment," Reynolds said...
...If I've got one thing on my agenda it's to stop social issue legislation from coming to the floor.' " Simpson said he had used the argument that the social issues (normally a code word for abortion) would so tear up the new Republican majority in the Senate that they wouldn't be able to pass anything else...
...and from there we would proceed to Attorney General Ed Meese's private dining room for breakfast...
...One theorized it was all part of the Washington status game, another suspected it was the only way to keep one step ahead of the civil servants (who work 9 to 5, but greatly out-number political appointees and pursue independent agendas more or less regardless of election results), while a third thought it was a way of escaping early morning domestic strife...
...The few who want a society of "entitled" beneficiary groups supervised by a liberal elite maintain a fierce din of indignation and accusation (with a little help from the newspapers...
...Contending forces (in the case of the Executive Order, William Brock at Labor and Ed Meese at Justice) will then argue things out, and the winner will come to Reagan and tell him what he must do and where he must sign his name...
...The world of celebrity takes in the rock stars, the TV stars, and all those lesser fish who have been seen on television and in the public prints and who have not actually been convicted of a major crime, or, at least, a large number of major crimes...
...In Chicago, I was told, you could barely walk in the Loop, it was so crowded...
...What does Kok think of Reagan...
...That's reality...
...Perhaps they had worn him down after all...
...we have rights that are higher than those of the Congress, the executive branch, and even the courts...
...If we buy into quotas we are locked into a caste system," he said...
...Naturally, Kraft was pilloried by his audience, though not before he also remarked that "on the whole, I like what I see, very, very much...
...Madonna is a third-rate Mae West, thumpingly amplified...
...In a speech at Georgetown University last October he impugned as "arrogance cloaked as humility" the view that we can discern "what the Framers thought...
...Leaders of the old civil rights movement were STRANGE NEW RESPECT: CONT'D Shortly after the 1980 election Paul Weyrich, the president of the Free Congress Foundation, went to a joint Senate Steering Committee-Wednesday Club meeting in a dining room of the Dirksen Office Building...
...Just because the Department had not supported busing, he said, it had not "backed off on civil rights enforcement...
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...Nonetheless it is apparent that many millions escape their daily grinds to fantasize on these eminences...
...I found myself sitting opposite William Brad-ford Reynolds, the assistant attorney general in charge of civil rights who last year was subjected to the familiar campaign of vilification by civil rights groups when he was nominated for promotion...
...It will be.televised...
...The empty streets were shiny in the rain, and an eerie silence fell...
...Here the Justice Department has played an important role, trying to ensure that judicial candidates understand that the U. S. Constitution does have a discernible meaning which ought to be respected...
...One by one the cops gently helped them, still singing, into the paddy wagon...
...to study the "social effects" of "new technologies"--I take this to mean that organized labor in Europe is no less concerned about being displaced by high tech than is our own AFL-CIO...
...The messengers got no response from inside the embassy, so they slowly walked to the parkway in front of us, arms intertwined, faces aglow, and began singing "We Shall Overcome": Paul, Peter and his daughter, the Unitarians, the rabbi, and in the middle, Mary's daughter, Mary's mother, and Mary, swaying her great body to and fro...
...I just stood there and listened," Weyrich said...
...Many strut and glare at their audiences as the practiced dictator might, but few could make their way in those faraway times when songs were vocally demanding...
...This bizarre yearning to escape explains the vast market that America now provides for celebrity...
...Somebody had to be first...
...Make no mistake, the left has won its victories over the years because its champions have a greater capacity for moral outrage than its opponents...
...mittee failed to confirm Reynolds, but he stubbornly stayed on at the civil rights division...
...It was the first of many, increasingly irritating encounters with Redskins fans...
...This has been called the "expansion" of civil rights but a complete change of meaning is entailed—almost a reversal of meaning...
...deficits . . . our children will pay," that sort of thing...
...To some degree today's escapism is explained by the ease with which Americans can flee reality...
...Not really," I said, "but...
...Simpson had his back to me when I came into the room," Weyrich recalled...
...Then Senator Chafee said, `Hi, how are you,' and Simpson turned around and saw me...
...Yes," I said, "I am...
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...Yet, for a complete ex-planation of contemporary escapism, one must scrutinize prosperity itself...
...Our escapists would rather dwell on the galoots in work shirts and the gals in underwear, That is fine by me...
...Both liberals and conservatives tell us that the good life is the life filled with the fruits of a robust gross national product...
...The NAACP brief in Brown v. Board of Education was dedicated to a color-blind Constitution...
...Springsteen is no Sinatra...
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...After breakfast we went to a series of meetings with key Department figures, among them Reynolds...
...Would a center-left government do the same...
...Actually, I'm a Bears fan anyway...
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...In 1984 he spoke at two Shavano gatherings...
...That was the theme of the civil rights movement through 1971...
...Can I get my tickets, please...
...Sing it, you big fat pig...
...Senators Alan Simpson of Wyoming and John Chafee of Rhode Island were already seated...
...He was telling Chafee that the Reagan Administration had been intending to send social-issue legislation to the Hill, `but I've stopped it,' he said...
...It may be questioned, and Alexander Hamilton did question whether a document that spells out those limited things that government can do needs an addendum specifying things that a government can't do, but let that pass...
...enter into "realistic discussion" with this new government on the future of the missiles...
...Still, the soft-spoken Kok is deadly serious: he is one fact-finder who has actually requested the help of the Congressional Research Service...
...Oh, yeah...
...Moreover, I am unconvinced that many of these wretches can sing any better than a United States senator taking his morning shower...
...Call it Kraft's fling with neoconservatism, an episode that passed unnoticed in the imperial media's obituaries of Kraft after his death on January 10...
...For a piece of media-bashing that couldn't have come from Reed Irvine, read the following: My contention is that those of us in the media have developed a journalistic creed, an ideology of the First Amendment...
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...Apparently "affirmative recruitment" allows the Department "to identify victims in a meaningful way...
...If there was a consolationby Tom Bethell prize for his rejection by the Judiciary Committee it was being able to remain in a position where he could have a say in the outcome...
...A doctrine of genetic entitlement is to replace the equal protection of the laws...
...The many who appreciate the rule of law and an equal application of the laws are silent, indecisive, unsure of what is going on, and above all fearful of accusation—understandably so in view of the hair-trigger McCarthyism of their opponents...
...The issue was results versus opportunity, quotas versus merit...
...No...
...Even the failure to restore the draft was aproduct of this "pervasive, corrosive" selfishness...
...Illustrated...
...On television...
...The selection of federal judges is obviously crucial both for the Reagan Ad-ministration and for the country...
...Washington Post January 18th headline: "Reagan Rating Falls in Poll of Blacks/56% Say President Is a Racist"--an accusation disguised as a finding...
...Reynolds had made it clear to me a couple of months earlier that he knew what was at stake in this contest...
...President Johnson's Executive Order 11246, laterinterpreted as requiring affirmative action in federal contracting, could have been rescinded right after the 1981 inauguration...
...Funny how much you can learn over lunch...
...As spelled out in the Bill of Rights, and until some time in the 1970s, "civil rights" meant specific limitations, or prohibitions against government powerthat applied to all: all had freedom of speech, of religious due process, jury trial, protection against unreasonable search and seizure, and so on...
...The author was none other than Joseph Kraft, writing in the May 1981 Commentary, in an article aptly titled, "The Imperial Media...
...One afternoon late last summer, not long after moving to Washington, I called the Kennedy Center to get tickets for a show...
...If the civil rights division was opposed to affirmative action, it was nonetheless in favor of "affirmative recruitment," and something called "out-reach...
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...It amounted to a broadside into Reaganism—"recrudescence of the acquisitive spirit . . . the rich . . . greed...
...As the source pointed out, "controversial" always means "conservative...
...Five years later the Ad-ministration is trying to do something about it—nervously...
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...Already German and Austrian trade unions have met with representatives of the official Polish unions...
...I heard a sharp intake of breath, followed by another pause, still longer than the first...
...For all I know they may already have spent an hour or two in pre-dawn meetings with Strike Force attorneys and vigilant Trustbusters...
...In my view the Reagan Administration miscalculated in failing to address this problem immediately...
...That's a critical cross-roads," he said, "a struggle that will determine the shape of the country's future...
...When I arrived it was still dark...
...After lunch we had an entertaining session with Grover Rees, the special counsel for judicial selection (he is 34 and a former University of Texas law professor...
...You see, it would be very difficult...
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...Does this mean that like Mitterrand he would have met with Jaruzelski...
...Reynolds himself went to Andover and Yale, and worked in well-connected law firms—more plausibly the curriculum vitae of one who would rather switch (the definition of civil rights) than fight...
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...the same event that inspired the likes of Anthony Lewis, Tom Wicker, and Michael Kinsley to dismiss as absurd the notion that American liberals tend to view U. S. behavior as no different from the USSR's...
...One would not have predicted that someone of Reynolds's back-ground would have the stomach to resist the collective will of the civil rights, media, and legal establishments...
...Of late he was particularly receptive to speaking invitations from the pristinely conservative Hillsdale College and its Shavano Institute...
...said the shooter in front of me, his camera to his eye...
...They must have demonstrated ability to write per-suasively on popular and scholarly levels, and to speak effectively on controversial issues on the platform, radio and television...
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...The essence of our claim is that what we do is central to the health and survival of American society...
...Much more recently a legislative strategist who does not wish to be identified went to see Senate Judiciary Chairman Strom Thurmond and asked him why he didn't speed up the confirmation hearings for Reagan's judicial nominees...
Vol. 19 • March 1986 • No. 3
