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Article: Politics In A Macaroni Era: Bill Clinton, who can cry out of one eye, has mastered the politics of contrived sentiments.(The Last Word)(Brief Article)
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- August 21, 2000
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In January 1946 Charles de Gaulle, fresh from his heroic role as France's liberator, and disdaining the banal normality of peacetime administration, abruptly resigned as president of the provisional government. Having fought for the grandeur de la France, he told a colleague, with characteristic hauteur, that he did not wish to "worry about the macaroni ration."
The death of most political fighting faiths, and the eclipse of public life by the private sector's productive prodigies, make this a macaroni era in politics. That may be why people fixated on public life (politicians, journalists) ascribe disproportionate importance to minor matters, such as Al Gore's ...
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