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...books deploring affluence who regularly call their editors for up-to-the-minute royalty statements; Marxist professors with two Volvos in the driveways of their summer homes. Esquire, whose pages spill over with advertisements for cars, clothes, travel and other worldly treasure, runs an article on the pleasures of downward mobility...
...have been on a downward slide for several weeks now. But that just strengthens my belief that this is the time for what we have been advocating, which is a totally different policy. And I would think that even if some people question that different policy or are not in complete agreement with my own faith in it, and others' faith in it, that at least they would recognize it is time for a change, tune to try something different. I think that [the problems with the economy] will just mean that it will probably take a little longer...
...burden of the past and the limits of the healing power of laughter. Time is measured back and forth from the year 1968, when the growing freedom of the Czech people, the fabled Prague Spring, was crushed by the Soviets: "Russian tanks invaded Bohemia." Recent history was revised downward, and those who had been prominent in pushing reforms (including Kundera) found themselves officially erased into nonpersons. Observes one character: "The only reason people want to be masters of the future is to change the past...
...performance was the equal of the marvels it found. Commanded only by its own computers, the robot soared past the mysterious moon Titan, approaching to within 4,000 km (2,500 miles) of its shrouded surface. Gathering ever more speed under the tug of Saturnian gravity, it plunged downward toward the outer edge of Saturn's rings, swirling bits of cosmic debris. Reaching a peak velocity of 91,000 km (56,600 miles) per hour, Voyager skirted within 124,240 km (77,200 miles) of the planet's banded cloud tops for its nearest approach to Saturn...
...first appeared. Soviet espionage, after all, was no fiction: wartime thieves of atomic secrets had been tried and convicted in federal courts. Nor was the Gulag a fantasy; as early as the '30s Stalin's murderous intent had been revealed. The "Red Menace" has been revised downward many times, but a generation ago there were many non-hysterical, unxenophobic Americans who found Communist rhetoric and performance to be morally squalid, and who deserved better than the work of self-aggrandizing Congressmen and sycophantic "cooperative witnesses...