Word: conscious
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...narrow margin for maneuver. The U.S. and the Soviet Union are ideological rivals. Détente cannot change that. The nuclear age compels us to coexist. Rhetorical crusades cannot change that either. A President thus has a dual responsibility: he must resist Soviet expansionism, and he must be conscious of the risks of global confrontation. His policy must embrace both deterrence and coexistence, both containment and an effort to relax tensions...
...falters and cracks when it grapples with these, the blackest manifestations of literature and politics alike. Applied to the Symbionese Liberation Army's treatment of Patty Hearst or the ravages of the Black Panthers. Cantor's literary formulations hesitate and recede. He fumbles off into over-intellectuality and self-conscious Hegelizing...
...live-in lady in an innocent but funny menage a trois. The old gent is played by the great director King Vidor, who may have given a tip or two, since these scenes indicate that were Toback to rein in .his ambitions, he might have a gift for conscious, rather than unconscious, comedy of an interestingly eccentric kind...
...rest of adulthood. It doesn't work. The two forty-bound protagonists of this latest addition to the tiresome genre keep talking about "learning to grow up." We seem to have no choice but to watch the maturing of our elders, the best-documented and most self-conscious generation to date, for a good while longer. There are more of them than of any other age group, and they will dominate American culture until they...
...short, the Viet Nam analogy is really the Viet Nam fallacy. It is fallacious not just in the objective difference between the two situations, but in the way that indulgence of a false analogy can skew judgment. In general, foreign policy is better served by a conscious attempt to analyze each situation afresh, rather than by the wisdom of hindsight (which, of course, is really not wisdom at all). Soldiers, it has often been said, have the bad habit of waging the last war. Americans, in their current fretting over El Salvador, are similarly afflicted. Across the political spectrum, there...