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Nevertheless, Delbanco deems Channing's awareness of the "pace of social change" occasionally "acute" but more often "naive," and admits: "Without a critic's coercion, no man is a true bellwether for a century, and Channing may not always place his hand consciously on the pulse of his age." When Channing fails as an emblem of his generation. Delbanco shifts to a discussion of America in the nineteenth century, and with thoughtfulness and clarity, connects the dilemmas of this period to those of the twentieth century. When the author declares that "America has become a collection of self-interested combattants...
...United States continues to manufacture nuclear weapons at an average rate of three warheads per day--not for military purposes but for their political utility. The most obvious use of nuclear weapons for political purposes consists in threatening their use in order to achieve political objectives. This type of coercion was employed during the years when the United States held a monopoly on nuclear weapons (until 1949) and then a virtual monopoly on intercontinental delivery systems (until late in the 1950s). Truman threatened to use nuclear weapons in both Iran and Korea, and Eisenhower again threatened in Korea. During...
...wealth the Shah plundered from Iran is ours without any shadow of doubt. According to the laws in force under the Pahlavi regime, the royal family as well as the Shah had no right to engage in business. And all transactions they made were laced with payoffs, coercion and illegal influence games...
Only one Palestinian during my two weeks of conversations suggested a solution to the Palestinian issue that did not envisage violence or coercion on a massive scale. Mansour al-Shawwa, a Gaza businessman who is also the mayor's son, still believes "the Arabs should declare peace with Israel and propose normalization." His reasoning: within three to five years, Israel would lose its "siege mentality," thereby leading to a new relationship between Arabs and Jews. But for Mansour al-Shawwa, the advocacy of peace has its hazards. Because of several terrorist attempts on his life, he is now protected...
...Stalin, this ideal was most faithfully reflected in the work of his favorite painter, Alexander Gerasimov, whose portraits of the dictator in various noble poses hung in museums, offices, factories and homes everywhere. At the same time, in the '30s and '40s, Stalin used every kind of coercion to apply the Socialist Realism doctrine, destroying the avant-garde and the contacts with Western artists that it needed. By 1953, when Stalin died, no Soviet artist could see, except in the most fragmentary way, any modernist art at all; the work of the constructivists, that heritage of Russian intellect...