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...What voters rejected in states hard hit by falling prices for oil, agricultural products, timber, textiles, and other goods was, in this Editor: Peter Steinfels view, the administration's stubborn adherence to laissez faire...
...and its social agenda is by no, means popular...
...The president has been the apostle of painlessness...
...POSTMASTER: Send address changes to Commonweal, 15 Dutch St...
...years of Reaganism posed...
...Even if it doesn't always Likewise, with Democratic Senator Sam Nunn leading the work out," he added modestly, "Remember the '7th Armed Forces Committee, the worst excesses of Caspar playoff with the Yankees...
...I a lame-duck administration, but it is still the administration...
...Production Editor: Anne Robertson Poetry: Rosemary Deen The troubles with this theory are manifold...
...political parties, which re- Strike One' main broad coalitions of often conflicting interests, do not...
...came through with a coveted ticket to the seventh Will they continue to do so, once back in control of both game of the American League Championship Series, houses of Congress...
...I got tired of the winters...
...flow long can a grown man carry on the way we as though they were in charge...
...watch your language, I carne ety and to the Supreme Court of the Meese school of selective because I never forget an old friend...
...Makers/Advertising /Advertising the Indeed, in two farm-belt states, Iowa and Kansas, the president was deliberately American Dream: Ron Nahser 635 kept at a distance - and the GOP won governorships...
...All If Reaganism without Reagan, whether of the Bush or the Kemp variety, no Canadian and foreign subscriptions must be paid in longer promises Republicans an assured future, it cannot be said that the Democrats U.S...
...dollars by International Money Order or by have offered an alternative...
...lie chuckled...
...Commonweal, [ISSN 0010-3330] A Review of In Vermont, not even a continuing liberal trend in the electorate, the presence of a Public Affairs, Religion, Literature, and the Arts, strong feminist movement, and the backing of all the major candidates could achieve is published biweekly, except monthly victory for an equal rights amendment to the state constitution...
...But qualified conservatives will still find "What times we had...
...constructionism...
...fense...
...don't 'took back...
...But don't count on Democrats to stand united against interven- "You must have left Boston that year...
...can't Christmas-New Year's and July and August, by Commonweal Foundation, 15 Dutch St., New win in Vermont," said one political scientist, "it can't win anywhere...
...This criticism a broad agenda or vision can give America the kind of strong misses the mark...
...Just Commonweal: 612...
...The games to one...
...Except in Idaho, it didn't help...
...Great things are promised - prosperity, world power, balanced budgets, old-fashioned social stability, even the elimination of nuclear weapons...
...In the U.S., admin- our last hope was Dave Henderson...
...Life means change...
...will give the Democrats a full plate-redressing the impact on Some observers have gone so far as to suggest that if the poor, containing the deficit, pressing for an intelligent, Reaganism without Reagan won't work for Republicans, it is measured defense policy, encouraging the administration to working just fine for Democrats...
...Joseph Biden heading the Judiciary Committee, may rule out "'Thank God you've come," I said earnestly...
...It is infused with a nostalgia for the fierce sense of purpose that justifies sacrifice...
...The conventional observation is that the the Red Sox were on the verge of losing the series, four Democrats lack an "agenda" or a "vision" of their own...
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...of the pinstripes...
...Most of my pals prefer basketball...
...Democratic candidates carefully avoided a frontal check on a U.S...
...Reagan...
...the party's comeback, it will quickly be apparent just how He materialised instantly, hardly changed except for tugged between liberal and conservative impulses the party the tinted glasses and a shorter hair style...
...sunbelt," he said...
...Pandaemonium: Neville Braybrooke 638 If Reaganism cannot triumph with Reagan, how can it survive without 'him...
...Not the possible collapse of Reaganomics (which seem premised that any of this would interest you, you've changed so on an almost endless extension of an expansion that is already much - and not for the better...
...hand, anti-abortion proposals on the ballots in such disparate states as Rhode Island, Single copy, $1.50...
...Give the people an Assistant Editors: David Toolan, Karen Sue activist government in economic matters and they'll vote their natural proclivities Smith, Patrick Jordan for anti-Communist nationalism globally and conservative social policies at home...
...With two out in the ninth, trailing by a run, complaint is true but it is also misleading...
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...How could you tions overseas...
...foreign, $59...
...Only hours after my cousin Edward with Carter and Mondale, are now playing the same game...
...lot of voters...
...The latter, in other words, seize reasonable opportunities for arms control...
...With an energy, if not a message, that demanded respect, the president The Image Makers/The Mirror threw himself into the close congressional races...
...foreign, $33...
...Trust your mother but cut the cards" goes the old saying, and the electorate seems to have finally applied it to Mr...
...On the other York, N.Y...
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...Nonetheless, there is one sense in which the Democrats A FAN INFLAMED can be fairly charged with practicing their own brand of Rea- WITH THE RED SOX IN AUTUMN ganism...
...An early vote by the 100th Congress in January to re-enact the Clean Water Act of 1986, pocket vetoed by the president two days after the November 4 election, would only underline what Books the election earlier made clear...
...Reagan's may now be "What can I tell you, old pat...
...exaggerates the Democrats' power...
...they gained ground where weak Republican candidates, carried into office on the 1980 presidential coattails, or by local economic hardship, unremedied or exacer21 November 1986: 611 bated by administration inaction, had left GOP flanks ex- repairing some of the consequences of six...
...Perhaps it's have thoroughly acquiesced to the main terms of Reaganism best for the Democrats to go about these tasks in a workman- cutting government "waste...
...traditional values - and are merely claiming to be able The other side of that argument, of course, is that only such to carry out the program more effectively...
...bank...
...lackluster and will soon approach twice the average duration '"Hey I'm forty years old," I protested...
...I was stymied by the mystique Weinberger's Pentagon spending will certainly be reined in...
...great times...
...Instead, N.Y...
...New York, assault on either the president or the catchphrases of his administration...
...Talk of an alternative Democratic program also dangerously "Have you moved to LA?'' I asked in dismay...
...If the E.R.A...
...an ethical burden: James J. Walter 616 Defining sacred bonds: T. Patrick Hill 620 LAME DUCK Raised voices in Nicaragua: John C. Cort 623 soup Screen: Tom O'Brien 631 W Stage: Gerald Weales 632 n 91 ONALD REAGAN may not look like a lame duck, quack like a lame duck, or Verse: Dan Liebert 633 walk like a lame duck...
...The New Right, of course, can see the election as a summons to the Staff conservative populism it trumpets...
...its foreign-policy tough talk is both expensive and worrisome to a Abigail McCarthy, David R. Carlin, Jr...
...no tax increases...
...Don't worry, I'm not committed to the The president is a master at shifting responsibility, and given California Angels...
...but he is a lame duck...
...Special two-year rate: U.S., $49...
...After the euphoria of fhfr ad aliare diaboli, in nomine Bostoniae fanatienruin...
...The sixties for the post-war period), the Democrats would be foolish to act are over...
...That's obviously what a lot of Republicans are pondering these days, George Bush among them...
...1 thought l remains...
...Finally, the call for a distinctive Democratic agenda "'Maybe, but you've really marred badly: married, a suggests that there is not even now plenty to be done...
...appointments to the federal courts of the Daniel Manion vari- "Please," he winced...
...dies...
...Indeed, the New Right Movies: Tom O'Brien standard bearer, Jack Kemp, spent over $2 million merely to keep his House seat (a Staff: Karen F. Silva, Harriette Balsky, half million more than the next biggest spender, Joseph Kennedy of Massachusetts) Janice Gates Advertising Manager: Ruth E. Taylor without apparently gaining ground in his pursuit of Vice President Bush...
...I had an to international politics where secrecy and presidential pres- unusual opportunity in real estate, so 1 headed for the tige give him wider latitude...
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...strong de- like, piecemeal way...
...dent hemmed in on domestic initiatives will shift his energies ''What can l tell you...
...Canada, $53...
...Great tricks...
...Contents Volume CXIII, Number 20 commonweal Correspondence 610Editorials 611 A fan inflamed: Robert H. Bell 612 A dangerous equation: John Garvey 614 Food & water...
...New Right populism is skin deep on Columnists: John Garvey, J. Bryan Hehir, economic issues...
...Only a broad agenda or confrontations of the sixties and seventies, and ignores the vision can provide the context in which citizens are willing to extent to which Americans have always given homage to a common set of vague goals, with serious political differences turning on the ranking of such goals and the means to achieve them...
...IntroThis is especially true of the Democrats...
...Yearly subscriptions, U.S., Massachusetts, and Oregon all went down in defeat...
...support among many Democrats, especially Southerners...
...The Democrats, having tried a kind of cheerless, scolding honesty FELT like hell...
...Democratic control of the Senate, with Senator might he hearing from you tonight...
...I lit a candle and murmured the old incantation...
...istrations may have "agendas...
...Canada, $30...
...But the price tag is hidden...
...It wasn't a Christianity and the World vote of no confidence that they cast on November 4 but a vote of distinctly limited Religions: Denise Lardner Carmody 634 confidence...
...Indeed, there is always the danger that a presi- abandon us...
...And the Publisher: Edward S. Skillin national stand-off about deep issues of cultural change was summed up in voters' reactions to local proposals dealing with equal rights for women and with abortion...
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