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Indeed, Reagan will not be judged on his initial blunder about fraud in recent Philippine elections; he will be remembered for helping to remove a longstanding dictator and reestablishing a democracy in the island nation. His job was to oversee U.S. policy toward Marcos in the broadest sense...
...rather more than an alternative form of dressing. They are Japanese in origin, Western in spirit and, finally, universal not just in their impact but in the ravishing new images of the body they propose. These clothes taunt trend and defy style; they are not "fashion," except in its broadest generic definition. They are objects made by a designer who has the true spirit of an artist...
...very narrow and conservative outlook on what constitutes quality." Here his objection is a little elusive. It is difficult to see how editorial standard that call explicitly for depth can be considered narrow; we hose the six papers that seemed to us most interdisciplinary, and most relevant to the broadest questions of life. And it is difficult to see how papers about what Harry calls "Great Men...and their Great Ideas" are any more conservative than paper about the "common man." But it is easy to see how great ideas are more interesting to read about than common ones, Harry...
...exciting about this interest is that it's an example of what every liberal arts education is supposed to contain and so sporadically does: study for study's sake. Those who flock to hear Jardine and Johnson, Suleiman and Phinney know that lit crit is a combination, in its broadest description, of such disparate disciplines as linguistics, philosophy, and traditional literary analysis. And they want to study it because it's interesting and important. It's move than a shame that there isn't enough room for them: there people are there for all the right reasons...
...quality of the men and women he selects to fill the most important posts in his Cabinet and on his White House staff. In the Reagan Administration, that dependency has taken a quantum leap. By temperament and managerial choice, Ronald Reagan usually is content to chart the broadest philosophical directions for his Government and leave not only the details but much of the substantive content of policy to be developed by his advisers. When they disagree, he generally relies on them to work out a compromise among themselves; he chooses between conflicting viewpoints only when he cannot avoid doing...