"It a man does not keep pace with his compan- (5/917/7/lli%"i @/Fl?’ ions. perhaps ll IS We keep hearing how Liberalism is at its because he hears a dil- lowest ebb since anyone can remember. le/ent drummer. Let him The great liberal newspaper columnists step to the music which are gone; the political progressives have he hours. however mea- been routed by the ultra-right. Franklin sured or tar away." Roosevelt, lohn and Robert Kennedy, Henry David Thoreau Hubert Humphrey and Adlai Stevenson seem dim memories, even if today's gen- eration can tell you who they were. Where once there were liberal giants, now all have we are mental pygmies; know-nothings who seem to be inter- 8 MAl.ECAl.l./DEAR SIR The smoke still hasn't cleared after last issue's ested only in power, the buck and prayer cigar salute. in schools. Whatever became of the liberals? We . 10 URBAN ABORICINALS by Geoff Mains ask because the only progress the Exclusive excerpt from a groundbreaking new study SM. A of community has been able to make toward l leatherman/scholar looks at the roots of our deepest fascinations. first-class citizenship has been through 17 SlAVESHAVlNG'. liberal causes directed by liberal thinking.

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Schlalli. 1' & Company smile in triumph as Cover and Opposite Page: A lesson from the legend olSamson—when the hair gets shorn, so they watch Us accompsh what [hey wefe does the slavc-'s resistance. Photos by Iim Wigler. not able to do. And we did it to ourselves. Liberalism, which has brought the great advances throughout history, is far from Volume 9/Number ‘75/June 1194 dead. But it is taking a terrible beating f ' ' d . [om "S {Hen S /ohn ll. Embry, Publisher DRUMMER 7

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