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Brown intrigued audiences with his unorthodox, sometimes obscure, opinions. He termed the Administration's energy and economic policies "a pretzel palace of confusion." A foe of nuclear power, Brown charged that the White House had made "a Faustian bargain with radioactive technology that will last for hundreds of thousands of years." Brown urged Americans to "join together, not in the sterile games of Metternich clones who want to play chess with the countries of this planet, but rather in a politics that recognizes that the central concerns are in protecting this planet and unifying the peoples of this earth...
...swing vote. Vellucci's vote for Danehy appears to be a petulant, isolated one, spiting the progressive coalition which elected him mayor in 1975 and supported him in the most recent election. But if his support for Danehy results in Vellucci sliding into the conservative camp, this somewhat Faustian pact will have severe repercussions...
...rigidly anti-rent control stand has caused a good deal of bitterness in liberal circles. While a number of liberals--Harvard Law School professors James Vorenberg and Charles R. Nesson to anme two--have endorsed him, others go so far as to charge Clem has struck a "Faustian pact" with conservatives who lack concern for the poor...
...rejecting fate, the U.S. is the ultimate incarnation of Western, Faustian man. But that posture toward the universe also has immense dangers. There is no shifting of blame, no relief in the notion that "this is the way things are." We are reluctantly willing to accept as inevitable natural disasters, but little else. Indeed, even nature must be put in its place through technology, and even death is somehow considered an affront, a failure of medicine, or of right living. Disease, poverty and other ancient afflictions simply are not accepted as part of the human condition. Perhaps rightly...
...Bradley says he, like all athletes, is discovering the terrors of a fading life and is beginning to view the "Faustian bargain" of his professional career from the sardonic distance that a nagging vision of the end gives him. He defines fatalistically the repayment of the debt...