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...Life isn't fair," is the proverbial response to a bad lottery number. This axiom is indeed a truism in the real world where people who have more money are able to afford better housing. Why not adopt this approach for housing at Harvard? Undeniably, a suite in Lowell House would get more on the market than one at North House, in Harvard's terms. How about offering those spacious suites to the highest freshmen bidders...
...there to criticize Black thinkers for holding to a dictum that every Jewish opinion was a good one. What the Black community needs now is a thinker of Cruse's force to confront Black intellectuals, and here Cruse is included, for holding to a new and equally blinding axiom: no Jewish opinion is a good...
Justice delayed, insists the legal axiom, is justice denied. Some similar principle must apply to gratitude. When offered too late it turns into something else, a thank-you made soggy by the slop-over of guilt and apology. It was scarcely surprising, then, that many Viet Nam War veterans were somewhat wary when New York City cranked up a welcome-home parade ten years after the end of the conflict...
...Truman Doctrine set out the basic foreign policy axiom of the postwar era: containment. With J.F.K.'s pledge to "bear any burden . . . to assure . . . the success of liberty," the idea of containment reached its most expansive and consensually accepted stage. With Viet Nam, the consensus and the expansiveness collapsed. Since then the U.S. has oscillated, at times erratically, between different approaches--different doctrines--for defending its ideals and its interests...
...like some puzzling psychological axiom, the whole is greater than the sum of the parts and Dysart cannot account for the difference. It can only be testimony to the dark powers of the mind that, somehow, through the mixing of these impressions and influences there arises the imaginary Equus, part god, part object of desire...