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OCCASIONALLY a cause comes along which holds enough emotional appeal to spur a wave of political involvement; the most recent example is the divestment issue. People start to care about politics, and they subsequently lose their apathy. But as they abandon the negative side of apathy, they sometimes also lose the positive side--tolerance for opposing viewpoints. Lately the strategies used by the proponents of divestiture have become increasingly centered on too-bad-if-you-disagree tactics such as the building of shanties in the Yard. Focus has thus shifted from trying to inform the public of the facts...
...York Times, A.M. Rosenthal, asked unhappily in a recent magazine article: "Do we really only have (a) choice between the lesser of evils?" In many cases and in much of the world, that is indeed the only choice we have. To recognize this is not to abandon or betray American ideals but only to see that these ideals require the support of practical and feasible policy...
...gives birth to a son, replacing metaphor with life. Love, no longer a dance, no longer a word game, connects to the rest of life and death and takes on the weight of destiny. As the blood flows, bringing little William into the world, Colwin does not abandon her chosen theme; she movingly fulfills...
...most disturbing development that Drucker describes is the burgeoning "symbol" economy. By that he means the intangible realm composed of capital movements, foreign-exchange transactions and credit flows, which have ballooned enormously since the leading Western industrial nations decided to abandon the system of fixed exchange rates in 1971. Drucker warns that Washington's use of high interest rates to finance its budget deficit through foreign borrowing has caused a dangerous "politicization" of the symbol economy, a trend that he sees other countries starting to imitate in, for example, their selective manipulation of currency exchange rates...
...abandon the country that has stood beside us in every war we've fought, a country that strategically is essential to the free world? It has production of minerals we all must have..." (President Reagan, CBS News, March...