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...strong administration, saw the state budget double and, says Wills, "committed the very sin he inveighed against -- government." The same imbalance of reality and myth continues during the presidency, which takes up the last and weakest portion of a 41- chapter book. Here Wills' cinematic thesis tends to fade out. "What is Star Wars," he asks rhetorically, "but another, more complex projector meant to trace, in lasers and benign nuclear 'searchlights,' the image of America itself across the widest screen of all?" But Reagan is not the inventor of the Strategic Defense Initiative; he is merely its most ardent spokesman...
Freud, Marx and Einstein, raiders of thought and institutions at the outset of our century, are beginning to fade as influences on conduct. The relative universe of which Einstein brought news no longer frightens people into a sense of personal powerlessness. Marx has been discredited in public as the prophet of a future that works only at the expense of human self-regard. Freud one either takes or leaves: your age may think him a brilliant curiosity, an alchemist with style. In different ways, all three helped to persuade several generations that fate either was not in their hands...
That is what makes Live/1975-85 unique: it is a concert as well as a confessional. Springsteen makes everyone accomplices in the shared experience of a common emotional life. And, as the cheers fade after the last song, there is a sure sense that it is time for him to move on. This is traveling music, then, for a trip that has finished and a journey that is about to begin. Put on Live/1975-85 and start waiting again...
...festivities died down and the visions began to fade away, people heading home from their brush with Reality saw that same vaguely bovine pile of rubble hoisted to the top of a large inscribed cylinder in the center of Columbia's quad. The light shining down upon it from the eminence of the Columbia Library gave it the ridiculous appearance of a sacrifice...
...apartheid critics fret that black workers may suffer because the new owners will be less scrupulous than U.S. firms about following the equal- employment practices spelled out in the Sullivan Principles, which most American firms support. Black leaders also fear that corporate contributions to housing and education programs may fade. The pullout also threatens the future of Pace College, a technical school in the black Soweto township that is funded by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce of South Africa. Boycotts by student militants forced the school to close last week, but Chamber President Kenneth Mason hopes to see it reopen...