Word: enlightenedness
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Harper-Collins seems to have a lot of respect for Mr. Deighton because it has a whole section called "Raves for the Author." A quote from the Boston Globe says one of Mr. Deighton's thrillers "is one of those books that you hate to see end." But I don...
For the next 20 years Bismarck used all his craft and guile to maintain the peace among Europe's constantly maneuvering rulers. But his Reich was deeply undemocratic: he despised the legislators of the Reichstag, and was not responsible to them, but only to the Kaiser, whom he bullied and...
BUT this expansive growth has come with heavy costs--costs Bok did far too little to mitigate. The president has overseen the birth of Harvard, Inc., a massive corporate empire that does not fully weigh the ethical implications of its actions. On investment policy, on some academic questions, in the...
The party and the army, in fact, are the only two viable institutions in China, and the army is in the service of the party. That leaves only one channel for positive change: a new, more enlightened Emperor who will reform the system from the top down. Such a leader...
Any simple description of that theme -- coming of age in the boondocks, the triumph of hope over the dictates of happenstance -- inevitably misrepresents and diminishes the nature of Ford's accomplishments. His fiction is almost totally free of abstractions, of arrows pointing to the meanings or the morals to be...