Word: directing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Park Avenue office, Kissinger works at a desk covered with precise rows of labeled folders, suggesting a world tidier than it is. Gone are the old trappings of office -- the direct phone link to the President, the reams of classified documents. But he dismisses secret papers as too short-range to be useful now. Experience enables his team to glean much from press reports. He is out more than in, meeting clients in corporate boardrooms, making more than 50 speeches a year for a minimum of $20,000 each, cultivating new contacts as old ones phase...
...addition to his role as diplomat-for-hire, lecturer and special commentator for ABC, Kissinger composes a newspaper column every month for the Los Angeles Times syndicate. While the column, carried by the Washington Post, is vintage Kissinger in its grand sweep and magisterial voice, his careful avoidance of direct criticism of the Administration has made it less trenchant -- and less influential -- than it might otherwise be. It all adds up to a life that is both lucrative and satisfying. Still, he says, "I would put national service above business, as a general proposition -- if it is important." Then...
...spins a fantasy in which Jesus, having survived the three temptations in the wilderness, is offered a fourth: a contract from Lucifer Inc. to go to Rome and anchor a First-Century network variety show. Jesus, "concerned with truth and reality" rather than "fantasy and images," refuses. As a direct result of that choice, across the centuries the greatest artists and architects, poets and philosophers, musicians and mystics celebrate "the brightest and most far-reaching hopes ever to be entertained by the human mind and the most sublime purposes ever to be undertaken by the human will." Now that, says...
Preachers who purchase airtime frequently offer books, calendars, lapel pins and whatnot to those who phone or write in. Viewers requesting "premiums" often send checks, but the preachers' real goal is to build a computerized name list for future direct-mail solicitation. One prominent evangelist, Oregon-based Hispanic Luis Palau, complains with some justification, "When you try to talk to somebody about Jesus Christ in America, they immediately think all you want is to get their name, address and ZIP code...
South Africa is not some extension of Appalachia where American youth can do social work. It is a country where the schoolchildren and teachers in Black schools are on strike, and where education is under direct and indirect state control. It is a situation in which you have to take sides. Let us hope that Dan Steiner and Alan Heimert when they go to South Africa later on this month do not lose Harvard or themselves in the crossfire...