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...same imbalance of reality and myth continues during the presidency, which takes up the last and weakest portion of a 41- chapter book. Here Wills' cinematic thesis tends to fade out. "What is Star Wars," he asks rhetorically, "but another, more complex projector meant to trace, in lasers and benign nuclear 'searchlights,' the image of America itself across the widest screen of all?" But Reagan is not the inventor of the Strategic Defense Initiative; he is merely its most ardent spokesman. Surely the scientists and military executives who think SDI feasible cannot all have been transfigured by the dazzle...
West Europeans believe that an Iranscam-style scandal is unlikely in their countries for institutional and psychological reasons. In Britain, for example, there is no government equivalent of the National Security Council, only a benign advisory appendage to 10 Downing Street known as the Cabinet Office. Insists Field Marshal Lord Bramall, a former Chief of the General Staff: "The idea of a bunch of military cowboys running their own foreign policy out of the Cabinet Office is too absurd to contemplate." On the Continent, a widespread feeling exists that if anything like Iranscam were uncovered, it would not have...
...autograph book, Eisenstaedt is sometimes held to lack an autograph of his own, an unmistakable style in the manner of Andre Kertesz or W. Eugene Smith. But the signature his work bears is more a matter of spirit than style, an embrace of life's episodes that is as benign and enveloping as eyesight itself. His 1963 picture of children watching a puppet show in Paris is both the consummate example of his close-in approach and the best metaphor for his own excitement in seeing...
SECRETARY OF EDUCATION William J. Bennett last week told an audience in Dallas that the Harvard administration's relatively benign attitude toward undergraduate drug use is "unconscionable." Basing his assertions upon a trio of articles in The Crimson, Bennett called Harvard's stance on drugs "a violation, an offense to everything higher education stands...
AFTER YEARS OF BENIGN NEGLECT of Iran, the recent events have once more made that country the focus of public attention. The President tried to explain his arms for hostage initiative by underlining Iran's strategic significance. He and his aides have been hard at work to convince the public of the wisdom of reaching accommodation with "moderate" elements in Iran...