Word: chasms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard community should see Derek Bok's attempt last week to pass on a central ethical question as new evidence of the gaping chasm between Harvard investment myth and Harvard investment reality. Bok, in turn, should examine the ethics of cloaking amoral decisions in moral gorses. And everyone should be asking Harvard tough questions, like Hoffmann...
...while avoiding the usual pitfalls, this production falls instead into the Brechtian chasm. Were it any other play by Bertolt Brecht, this director and this cast could have produced something special. One can't fault them for choosing a hard nut to crack, and indeed, the play might shine with some more polishing. In any case, such a talented director and superb cast deserve a look...
Suddenly the Soviet Union demands our scrutiny again: the deep chasm peered at impolitely by a world that, in every age, has found it impenetrable, benumbing. When Joseph Conrad wrote about the place, he called his novel Under Western Eyes because he wanted his readers to understand that his story was being told by an outsider, meaning that no non-Russian could ever hope to see into that particular heart of darkness with any clarity or certainty. It is the same now. With Leonid Brezhnev gone, where are Western eyes to look, at the man or at the space...
...what exactly was it? What lies in the chasm, which, after all, should be a lot easier to comprehend than when Conrad was searching it? In 1517, the German Ambassador brought the West its first description of a Russian ruler: "He surpasses all the monarchs of the whole world. He uses his authority as much over ecclesiastics as laymen, and holds unlimited control over the lives and property of all his subjects: not one of his counselors has sufficient authority to dare to oppose him." Was he describing a Tsar or a Stalin? The power alone is not unfathomable...
...ingenuity of President Reagan's Middle East peace plan, as several observers have noted, is that it seeks to make a distinction (a chasm, more likely) between Prime Minister Begin and his annexation policies on the one hand, and the enduring safety of Israel on the other. But the Prime Minister and the issue of Israel's safety are not so easily separated. Begin gained much of his power by appealing to his people's fear of national annihilation, a fear that is genuine in him, and not a political expedient. Indeed, the reason its expression carries...