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...most infamous was Moral Reasoning 21 taught in spring 1982, which Visiting Philosophy Professor Ronald Dworkin taught as a discussion course before 800 people in Sanders Theater. Another was Literature and Arts B-16, which in the spring of 1983 drew 600 students to a 400 maximum course. Flip-flops in the admissions policy, with lotteries cancelled as fast as they were created, caused mass confusion up until the study card deadline...
Perhaps the most notable feature of Mitterrand's three years has been the dramatic flip-flop in economic policy: what began as a reflationary spending spree later turned into prolonged austerity. Similar reversals have occurred, though less conspicuously, in many other realms, as the aggressive changes of 1981 and 1982 were revoked or diluted in the face of reality or public reaction. As Culture Minister Jack Lang privately told a Paris publisher, "We had big ideas in the beginning, dreams from all those years in the opposition, but then we were confronted by realities, and we came to understand...
These questions are raised most urgently by the persistent victims of the political flip-flops: the 20 million Chinese who by virtue of being educated are considered to be "intellectuals." Though the new regime is undoubtedly less merciless than Mao's, it has shown a frightening propensity for relapsing into violent bouts of puritanism and dogmatism. In 1979 Deng released the country from the cultural straitjacket of the Mao era, admitting Shakespeare and Updike, Mickey Mouse and Muhammad Ali, the Beatles and the Boston Symphony. In the following year, however, he endorsed a brutal backlash. By 1981 leftist ideologues were...
...whether Reagan will remember anything he said this week after he returns across the Pacific. We of course welcome friendly relations with the world's most populous country, but, coming after a period of chilly rhetoric by the Americans, the sudden friendship does not ring true. Why the flip-flop...
...table by reviving the spirit of detente. With that attitude in mind, Reagan gibed last week, "Good will and sincerity will get them a smile and a glass of vodka. And you can guess why the Soviets will be smiling." At the debate, Mondale tried to tag Hart with flip-flopping perilously on arms control and only slowly perceiving the true virtue of freezing nuclear arms, but his attack missed the point. The truth is that Hart first explored more sophisticated approaches to arms control, like the "build down" that would allow the superpowers to build new weapons only...