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...policymakers to suppress America's natural idealism and support regimes whose only redeeming grace was their anti-Communism. To the extent that Gorbachev's new thinking makes that less necessary, it frees the U.S. and the West to pursue more positive goals. Among them: attacking environmental problems that cannot be solved on a national basis; shaping aggressive new methods for containing the spread of nuclear, chemical and biological weapons; reducing world famine and poverty; resolving regional conflicts...
This revival, staged by Gregory Mosher, director of the Lincoln Center Theater, cannot entirely recapture the liberating novelty that the first audiences found in Wilder's disdain for sets, props and other devices of illusion. But the production vividly evokes both his playful belittling of narrative and the irresistible appeal of his storytelling. Monologist Spalding Gray brings a feisty and brooding quality to the customarily benign stage manager: if his halfhearted attempts at a New Hampshire accent fail, the laughs he evokes are both frequent and authentic to the text. Film actors Eric Stoltz (Mask) and Penelope Ann Miller (Biloxi...
Reputable counselors make it clear they cannot guarantee a student will get into the college of his or her choice, but charlatans are already popping up. One in Fairfield County, Conn., reportedly told parents that he had a friend on the admissions committee at their child's first-choice school and could pull strings to get him admitted. He charged $1,000, offering the money back if the student did not get in. For the consultant, it was a no-lose proposition: he did nothing, and if the student happened to get in, he kept the money. The I.E.C.A. tries...
...should be his ignorant and unfair assumptions about Soviet policy and motives. The staff position, though not maliciously anti-Soviet, is still misguided in its apparent unreadiness to regard Gorbachev's proposals as legitimate. While we agree that both sides should be cautious, as any government should be, we cannot support insinuations that would place American presidents morally above Soviet leaders. Recent White House scandals, the Iran-Contra affair and covert CIA actions suggest otherwise...
...also find it hypocritical for the staff position to laud Gorbachev's promise of change, and yet to suggest that this policy is not likely to be implemented because it never has before. Change means just that, and it cannot occur if we are too stubborn and too distrustful to welcome it. As difficult as it may be, we must extricate ourselves from our anti-Soviet education and reshape our views to match the changing tide. Only then can the wave of trust and cooperation reach...