Editorials
Contents Volume CXI, Number 18 Correspondence Editorials Cuomo & the lay voice: Abigail McCarthy SDI: new technologies but old questions: J. Bryan Hehir The Merton we knew: W.H. Ferry,...
...Again, that was a remarkable tour de force for Mr...
...In Deadly Gambit, the masterful account of the Reagan administration's approach to arms negotiations, Time magazine's Strobe Talbott exposes what one reviewer (McGeorge Bundy) called Mr...
...560 Reagan, as always, exuded a hearty sincerity, but he was also noticeably uncertain, 560 faltering, on the defensive...
...James Harkness I Books The Seven Mountains of Thomas Merton/Follow the Ecstasy: William H. Shannon Margaret Mead: Bradd Shore God Knows: Joel Wells The Now and Future Church/ How to Save the Catholic Church: Robert lmbeUi The War of the End of the World: Ronaid Christ Machine Dreams: Robert Phillips The Memory Palace of Matteo Rieci: John W. O'Mailey Growth in Agreement: Michael A. Fohey A Social History of England: Peter Steinfel$ I Staff I I I Editor...
...In debating style, he certainly was...
...By itself, getting the deficit off our back will no more solve the nation's Illustrations: Cover, Edward Rice, from Reli- problems than did Mr...
...Mondale's performance in the Louisville debate, by contrast, quickly earned 570 its own media tag: "in command...
...Peter Steinfcls Assistant Editors: David To,Inn, Karen Smith, Patrick Jordan Production Editor...
...Reagan's magic formula about the government...
...The conventional wisdom holds that it is impossible to woo voters with talk of anything so complicated as the deficit, let alone anything so unpleasant as a tax increase...
...Ferry, Robert Lax, John Eudes Bamberger Screen: Tom O' Brien Stage: Gerald Weales Morte D'Author...
...He elegantly combined his body punches with 572 expressions of respect for the president and the presidency...
...Mr...
...gious News Service...
...no use his spinning visions he would never dare to implement...
...In short a striking contrast to the president's own performance...
...He even mentioned the Olympics first...
...p. 551, Hy Rosen, Albany Times-Union...
...From start to finish, except for the interludes about religion and abortion, this was almost wholly a debate about the deficit...
...Ticking off a long list of issues on which he believed the president had effectively defended the administration's record, Baker was quick, confident, composed, and articulate...
...Reagan's "ignorance of 566 the most elementarY issues" and what another reviewer (British nuclear strategist 567 Lawrence Freedman) described this way: "The president appears to have played a bit part in his own administration, failing to make proper decisions.., evaluating 568 proposals in terms of how they might sound in a speech rather than on their merits...
...Mondale is an airplane pilot with enough sense to know he must Publisher...
...Anne Robertson Poetry: Rosemary Deen, Marie Ponsot 548 .'11181111", 549 IIm...
...middle-of-the-road, business-oriented liberal...
...Joan Mondale swept to the side of her husband a good half second before Nancy Reagan, and she was immediately reinforced with loving children...
...561 The other possibility, of course, is that the contrast between the president and his White House aide revealed something typical, not atypical, about this administra- 563 tion's modus operandi...
...Mondale said nothing Staff: Karen F. Silva, Hardette Balsky, about full employment, little about cities, crime, discrimination against women, the Patricia Mazzola unfinished battle for racial equality, the protection and enlargement of democratic Advertising Manager: Ruth E. Taylor participation...
...The deficit question, moreover, is a conservative way of 19 October 1984:549...
...Ih,, 550 -'-" IN IP "" 552 553 DEFICIT 557 558 DEBATING 564 T HE LOUISVILLE DEBATE had just ended and there was White House Chief of Staff James Baker on network TV declaring that his man had won...
...And meantime, some liberals are wondering whether fighting deficits isn't a Columnists: John Garvey, J. Bryan Hehir, Abigail McCarthy terribly limited centerpiece for the Democrats' agenda...
...Mondale is, after all, a very 560, Margaret Mead, Barnard yearbook...
...p. But the deficit theme still makes a lot of sense...
...Contents Volume CXI, Number 18 Correspondence Editorials Cuomo & the lay voice: Abigail McCarthy SDI: new technologies but old questions: J. Bryan Hehir The Merton we knew: W.H...
...But what about the beef...
...Edward S. Skillin set down at the next opportunity for fuel and repairs but otherwise has no particular destination...
...The media quickly found a phrase for it: the president was "off his stride...
...553, 557, Emil Antonucci...
...Mondale...
...The conventional wisdom, of course, may eventually turn out to be right...
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