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...last chapter titled "Reflections on Self, Spirit and Social Change," Ogden suddenly widens her scope. All within a few pages, she addresses feminist backlash, mass media and power hierarchy and raises some interesting questions about the political implications of changing gender roles. Yet by this time, near the very end of the book, these topics on longer seem appropriate with the mood set from the beginning, a navel in high relief. Overall, the book does not fulfill its original stated mission, but reduces itself to an entertaining article on sexual hocus-pocus...
...distaste among some reporters for any story that might humiliate a Democratic President -- and journalists know that a sex scandal might be more efficient at doing that than a complicated financial puzzle like Whitewater. But for most journalists, the bigger questions have to do with fear of a public backlash, anxiety about being manipulated and uncertainty about what standard of proof is sufficient...
...backlash to the antismoking movement, some smokers have taken to celebrating their indulgence, at least in the presence of their like-minded comrades. In Palm Beach, Florida, the tony Chesterfield hotel holds monthly cigar nights; the restaurant closes to the public, then invites cigar smokers, for $125 a person, to a black-tie evening of cocktails, a five-course meal and all the cigars they can smoke. It is just one of dozens of such cloudy gatherings that are organized coast to coast each month. Gordon Mott, managing editor of Cigar Aficionado magazine, calls them "the speakeasies...
...that he failed to appreciate the strength America derives from the openness of its democratic system. His strategic and tactical brilliance made possible the U.S.'s rapprochement with China, but his secretive style and disdain for the moralism that undergirds America's sense of mission led to a backlash from both the left and the right against detente with the Soviet Union. Diplomacy reaffirms both my respect for his brilliance as an analyst and my reservations about the low priority he places on the values that have made American democracy such a powerful international force...
...last thing researchers want their finding to do is provoke a backlash against fruit juices. Certainly, older children can still indulge their habit. All that is required is common sense. "Do everything in moderation," Lifshitz advises. "Even the most healthful, prudent act, done in excess, can be harmful...