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Michael L. Walzer, professor of Government, said he was opposed to all quota systems, "every benign quota is malevolent for someone...
...that the developing use of the stirrup, which enabled a rider to carry a lance, created the system of land payments to knights and hence created the entire system of feudalism. Television can draw the world into a single experience - a moon shot, an assassination. McLuhan himself takes a benign view of the televised Sadat visit. "That," he believes, "was the human family sitting down together. It by passed history unexpectedly." Before anyone grows excessively mystical about television, however, it is probably well to remember that a few minutes after the President of Egypt set foot in the ancient enemy...
...elections, it has been committed to the oppressive policy known as apartheid (separateness). In theory, apartheid means that South Africa's 4.3 million whites, 18.6 million blacks, 2.5 million mixed-blood "coloreds" and 750,000 Asians will proceed along separate lines of development under the government's benign guidance. In practice, apartheid has meant the disfranchisement of a huge majority, which is subjected to one of the most repressive and discriminatory systems of racial laws in the world...
...road to Weimar and Hitler is to start tampering with constitutional guarantees allegedly for benign purposes...
...gaffes fade from memory once Close Encounters reaches its climax?for which Spielberg saves the most spectacular futuristic effects. Even here, it is the director, not the technical staff, who causes the movie to take flight. In Spielberg's benign view, the confrontation between human and alien is an ecstatic evolutionary adventure, rather than a potentially lethal star war; it is a wondrous opportunity for man to be reborn. When the earthlings and the visitors at last communicate in the film, bellowing "Hello" to each other in bursts of light and music, it is like hearing a child speak...