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...they raise crops or build machines, the way they vote or don't west prove puny and anemic up against the forces--of good, hunger for power, racism and the must--that seek to dissolve them. You cannot legislate those righteous phrases into being: you cannot compel with and justice and love. If you pass a law against segregation but don't convince the segregationist that he is wrong, these his have will find a dozen other outlets; indeed, it the put the same man in charge of Poland or EI Salvador, and capitalism or communism won't matter...
...read than any Expos paper. Domini's authorial voice is far from polished, his imagery and recurrent motifs reveal some weird phobias and preoccupations, but by and large the events that unfold in real and unreal locales (two stories are set after death and one involves astral projection) compel and haunt...
...comes down to the man. No one else can assert his authority clearly, or sketch the vision, or compel loyalty or design a comfortable and efficient structure for him. Reagan alone must seize events and move ahead of them...
...Argued Byrd: "The primary focus of concern for the countries in the region remains the Arab-Israeli conflict, not the Soviet threat." The AWACS sale would only worsen that conflict, said Byrd, because it would "transfer the mantle of a U.S. client state" to the Saudis, and thus compel them to take a hard line to prove their independence...
...primitive to be accepted. Nevertheless, there are a great deal of misunderstandings, some of which I tried to analyze above. It strikes me that their common denominator is actually anxiety: anxiety that something might happen, which would not only end Poland's dream of freedom and democracy but also compel the Western world to assume at last an unhesitating stand. Will something like that happen...