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...Reformation, and their origins are those of the modern world; we Mexicans are the children of the Spanish empire, the champion of the Counterreformation, a movement that opposed the new modernity and failed. Our attitudes toward time clearly express our differences. Americans overvalue the future and venerate change; Mexicans cling to the image of our pyramids and cathedrals, to values we suppose are immutable and to symbols that, like the Virgin of Guadalupe, embody permanence. However, as a counterbalance to their immoderate cult of the future, Americans continually search for their roots and origins; we Mexicans search for ways...
...pulling away from a staunch Reaganite like Emery, who hasn't even run a very effective campaign. Mitchell has an even shot at pulling it out, but Democratic effort to capitalize on the country's economic travail could very well fail to Maine, where many people seem still to cling to the hopes of prosperity that Ronald Reagan stirred in 1980. And as Maine goes...
Ironically, the movie's most poignant moments center around the older Stetsons (Brian Dennehy and Elizabeth Ashley). Both Dennehy and Ashley are superb as parents caught completely offguard by their son's defection to a world of make believe. They cling together as they try to retain their grip on their own values which Danny's indoctrination into Homeland has shaken. Should they feel responsible for failing to provide their son with an idealistic, equitable world? Should Danny blame them for his vulnerability to the hypnotic world of the cults...
What effect, if any, all this may have on Israeli government policy cannot be predicted. U.S. officials cling to the hope that the horror may yet prod all sides in the Middle East to some new accommodation. But already it seems clear that the Begin government has lost the trust of the U.S. Administration, and at the moment has lost the trust of the U.S. people as well. Rebuilding this trust is an urgent task-and a necessity. - By George J. Church. Reported by Johanna McGeary and John F. Stacks/Washington
...Supreme Court has forbidden prayers in public schools, but many Americans cling to the idea that then-educational system has a moral purpose. It is an idea common to both the Greeks and the medieval church ("O Lord my King," St. Augustine wrote in his Confessions, "whatsoever I speak or write, or read, or number, let all serve Thee"). In a secular age, the moral purpose of education takes secular forms: racial integration, sex education, good citizenship. At the college level, the ambiguities become more complex. Should a morally objectionable person be allowed to teach? (Not Timothy Leary, said Harvard...