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...Tocqueville instinctively feared democratic excesses, but he had a rare gift for standing aside from his prejudices. When the two volumes of his Democracy in America appeared in 1835 and 1840, they were bestsellers in France, then roiled by its own democratic currents, and the work is still the clearest view of the U.S. ever written by a foreigner...
...Essay "The Mind in the Machine" [May 3], Roger Rosenblatt asks if "anyone but a handful of zealots and hysterics seriously believes that the human mind is genuinely imperiled by devices of its own manufacture." The answer is yes, and the clearest example is thermonuclear weapons...
...that liberty which the British Falkland Islanders regard as their birthright." The British government would continue to listen to plans that might break the deadlock, but it would enforce its blockade of the disputed archipelago. "If the [war] zone is challenged," she declared, "we shall take that as the clearest evidence that the search for a peaceful solution has been abandoned. We shall then take the necessary action. Let no one doubt that...
...moment the cosmic significance of propelling a disembodied mouth through a maze in search of sustenance, the primal terror of being pursued by monsters through empty, winding tunnels. Consider the psychological implications of the game like its innumerable lesser relatives, like its venerable ancestor, pinball, Pac-Man providers the clearest example you'll ever see of the theory of positive reinforcement, negative feedback Do something smart and you keep playing Do something dumb and wham' you have to stop. Buy this shiny little booklet-which looks like the manual they give you with a new T.V. and goes about...
Last month, in perhaps the clearest example of its Rooseveltian approach to trust-busting, the government decided to drop its nine-year effort to break up the three great ready-to-eat breakfast cereal manufacturers, who together control 80 percent of the market. The Federal Trade Commission had argued that there had been a "tacit understanding" between the three firms to keep prices up, but the government had been unable to prove the cereal companies had gained illegal profits, and the case remained soggy. In refraining from prosecuting successful corporations simply because they are successful--and large--the Reagan Administration...