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...reputation as being the perfect cold warrior. The Chinese people must have been deeply startled by the change in their own leaders' attitudes, but they, after all, live under a system not too distant from 1984's state-manipulated memory control. Subject to no such constraint, however, the American public could be excused if it found its neck wrenched and its equilibrium upset by the surprising spectacle of Nixon chumming it up with his former enemies and sitting patiently through a revolutionary ballet in Peking...
...basic industries-notably autos, steel, oil, electric power and coal mining-when they violate federal pollution or job-hazard standards. By 1975, federal officials will be responsible for almost as many basic decisions in auto design as the auto companies' engineers. Stiffer regulation, however, is not a constraint on free enterprise. In an increasingly large and complex economy, regulation is what prevents the pursuit of profit from leading to harmful products, destructive dis-economies like pollution, the exploitation of customers and other threats to the stability of the business system...
...spirit of mutual respect among the Vietnamese parties will accelerate the process of Vietnam's reunification. Reunification will occur on the basis of negotiations among the Vietnamese, "without constraint and annexation from either party, and without foreign interference...
...straight line largely unadorned by the surprises and ambiguities that enrich his other plots. Boy meets boy, boy loses boy, second boy meets girl and takes up "normal" life, first boy meets another boy and affirms homosexual values in the face of hostile society. A prim sense of authorial constraint weighs on every page. The irony is that when Forster wrote obliquely about disguised homosexual relationships, as in The Longest Journey, he seemed far less inhibited and made the air crackle far more with implications...
...predicate his actions upon such obstacles as popular will and honest information, then his actions could be predicted and the diplomat's flexibility-his capacity to pursue a policy of threat-would rapidly diminish. And if Kissinger was determined to accomplish anything, it was to remove every conceivable constraint from policymaking so that the President's calculated guile could run its course. If the bureaucracy could be curbed, and Congress circumvented, then the policy of threat would become a reality. And that is precisely what Kissinger engineered...