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There is a touch of bravado fantasy in these defiant acts, as there is when a white woman journalist solicits sex in exchange for a favorable story. Such a thing is possible, but not likely to occur in the heavyhanded, abject way depicted in the book...
UNDERGRADUATES HERE have recently been fed a few abject lessons in forced apology. The Harvard Corporation, embarrassed by the consequences of its divestiture of holding in banks which make direct loans to the repressive regime in South Africa, issued an apology to the business community and tried to pay it's tepid symbol of opposition to apartheid. Pressed by students, the Corporation held back its policy change--but only temporarily. If history is an accurate indicator...
...costume designs to Donald Duck's Uncle Scrooge ("Wonderful! My favorite! Uncle Scrooge is my partner! He's Sergio Galeotti!") and a bathroom with a tub of Carrara marble big enough for Shamu the Killer Whale. The tub, Armani's one concession to abject luxury, also turns out, perhaps significantly, to be impractical. "It is so big," he admits, "that the water gets cold before it fills...
...simply to affirm an objective. It is above all to endow it with a meaning compatible with the values of their society. If peace is equated simply with the absence of war, if the yearning for peace is not allied with a sense of justice, it can become an abject pacifism that turns the world over to the most ruthless. To build peace on reciprocal restraint; to suffuse our concept of order with our country's commitment to freedom; to strive for peace without abdication and for order without unnecessary confrontation-therein resides the ultimate test of American statesmanship...
...stopped. The issue posed was who was "for" or "against" the war-a phony question. Nixon was determined to end our involvement, and in fact did so. What he refused to do was to doom to a bloody Communist tyranny millions who had relied upon us. He believed that abject failure would vindicate neo-isolationist trends at home. He was convinced that an America so weakened would dishearten allies and embolden adversaries. And he was proved right. The collapse in 1975 not only led to genocidal horrors in Indochina, but from Angola to Iran to Afghanistan it ushered...