Ronald Steel Quotes

• Heroes come along when you need them.

  Ronald Steel

  Hero, Needs

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• Television has made places look alike, and it has transformed the way we see. A whole generation of Americans, maybe two, has grown up looking at the world through a lens.

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  Two, Lenses, Generations

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• We falter from childhood amidst shames and fears, we move in closed spaces where stale tradition enervates, we grow hysterical over success and failure, and so by surrounding instinct with terror, we prepare the soul for weakness.

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  Moving, Space, Childhood

  Ronald Steel (1980). “Walter Lippmann and the American Century. [Mit Portr.] (2. Print.)”, p.4, Transaction Publishers

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• Children, for whom suburban life was supposed to make wholesome little Johns and Wendys, became the acid-dropping, classroom-burning hippies of the 1960s.

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  Children, Hippie, Burning

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• Politics as battle has given way to politics as spectacle.

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  Battle, Politics, Way

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• There is a curious relationship between a candidate and the reporters who cover him. It can be affected by small things like a competent press staff, enough seats, sandwiches and briefings and the ability to understand deadlines.

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  Relationship, Sandwiches, Enough

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• With a novelist's sense of drama and a historian's understanding of the social forces that shape our lives, Tom Gjelten has captured vividly -- through the chronicle of a powerful family's fortunes -- one of the great political dramas of our time.

  Ronald Steel

  Powerful, Drama, Political

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• Discount air fares, a car in every parking space and the interstate highway system have made every place accessible - and every place alike.

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  Air, Space, Car

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• Television has changed how we choose our leaders. It elected Ronald Reagan and a host of Kennedy-look-alike congressmen with blow-dried hair and gleaming teeth. It destroyed Senator Joe McCarthy by showing him in action and it created Jerry Falwell.

  Ronald Steel

  Blow, Hair, Leader

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