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Fighting off a syncope, Rip flees to a bookstore. He is just in time for the revisionist historians. When Rip left the U.S. the faint afterglow of Kennedy magic was still warm to the touch. Then they called it charisma. Now they call it Sha-melot. Such books as Henry Fairlie's The Kennedy Years and David Halberstam's The Best and the Brightest sound the knell for the '60s and its leaders. The returnee has missed the spate of Concerned Books: Soul On Ice, Deschooling Society, The Whole Earth Catalog-when Rip left, earth was only...
...Writing in Playboy, radical feminist Germaine Greer suggests that rape means not just taking by force but taking by fame, charisma, insincere tenderness, or hints of favors to come or largesse to be withdrawn. It is even rape when a lonely woman goes to bed with a man not because she wants sex but because she "would like to develop some sort of relationship with him." Writes Greer: "The man who has it in his power to hire and fire women from an interesting or lucrative position may extort sexual favors. A man who is famous or charismatic might humiliate...
...only one with charisma enough to beat Spiro...
...kind of moral economy. Perhaps we look upon half our friends as morally superior to us, and the other half as moral inferiors. With politicians, however, it is different. Politicians may be more splendid than us in many ways: often as studs, generally as charlatans, frequently as possessors of charisma. They may even show superior intelligence upon occasion. But we never have to worry about a politician's morals. We are fond of them because we know they are our moral inferiors. May I say that George McGovern left me in a state of confusion because...
...needed. There was no echo of Napoleon's dramatic escape from exile on Elba. Moreover, if Perón had planned to present himself as the instant solution to the troubles of Argentina and then ride off into the sunset like a gaucho De Gaulle with his charisma and place in history as a statesman intact, the scene was not quite right. Perón had, in fact, been forced to return to Argentina by the adroit maneuvering of Argentina's current President and military strongman, Alejandro Lanusse...