Word: basics
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...have acted correctly. But you can't govern by the numbers. Otherwise, we could replace a Chancellor with a polling institute. I consider the most important task I have is to contribute toward making the ties between the Federal Republic and the Western community irreversible and part of our basic political philosophy. This is, if you will, a declaration of love for the Americans. The only thing is that, as we see in everyday life, declarations of love that are only unilateral can cause feelings of frustration...
With reference to SDI (Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative, popularly called Star Wars), I strongly support the idea. In this, I would like to insist on two basic conditions: that it should not be a one-way street and that what we do together should be for our common benefit. The research carried out will not only be of military value; three-fourths of the research will have civilian applications. We can add a lot to this effort, in sophisticated optics, for example. I would like other Europeans to cooperate with us in this effort, like the French, British...
...Locke. According to Adler, Locke's worst error was to posit that ideas are what each individual consciously experiences and since different individuals' experiences inevitably vary, ideas also vary. Adler finds such notions "repugnant to reason." He calls up the Thomistic view, derived from Aristotle, that ideas are the basic concepts, the universal truths by which we understand experiences. Those truths are immutable. Otherwise, mankind would have no common base of understanding nor any common denominators such as good and justice, or, indeed, truth. Adler believes uncompromisingly in those denominators...
...been one largely of words in some of Madison Avenue's best and most memorable advertising. Currently the tag line "Coke is It!" is arrayed against "Pepsi. Choice of a New Generation." About five years ago, when the price of cane sugar went up sharply, Coke began shifting its basic sweetening ingredient to high-fructose corn syrup. Pepsi switched completely to the corn syrup sweetener this year. But the parts of each drink's formula that give the colas their distinctive tastes have remained essentially unaltered...
...those readers who feel glutted after just one or two Merv Griffin Shows, the message one takes away can be quite moving. Embedded in the humor we find a barely suppressed fear: for Jack and Babette the reliance on machinery, drugs and quick answers spells an end to basic human dignity, and all they can think about is dying before they have really lived. And the Cracker-Jack Box prize, the incentive for late night page mongers is DeLillo's dialogue, especially between father and precocious son, or father and ditzy mother...