Word: foreign
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Fein complains that Chomsky and Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi of Haifa University were not addressing their "area of expertise." What are Chomsky, a linguistics professor, and Beit-Hallahmi, a psychologist, doing talking about foreign affairs? This ad hominem reasoning would disqualify many of the leading critics of the Vietnam War, including Chomsky, and, for that matter, many leading supporters of Israel. Beit-Hallahmi, who appeared on WBGH's "Public Television Evening News" as an expert (along with Harvard's Nadav Safran), has written and lectured extensively on Israel's odious ties with South Africa...
This is true, but it is irrelevant to a discussion of whether Israel is violating democratic principles. If the U.S. is to continue to grant Israel the largest portion of its foreign aid, we ought to assess the strength of its commitment to democracy...
...safely say that German nationalism, compared to American nationalism, is miniscule, if not non-existent. In contrast to the America of 1989, we do not spend our time discussing flag-burning or standing up in high school to pledge allegiance to a piece of cloth. While the burning of foreign flags is illegal, every German can--and people do--burn as many German flags as he or she may wish...
Bids spiral to new records, and foreign investors scramble to buy, shifting old power bases. In a market it no longer controls, America sells more than it buys, the art world turns into the Art Industry, and liquidity is all. The result is that people are being deprived of access to their cultural heritage, and the richness of visual experience is collapsing under the brute weight of price...
...Wolfe's jeremiad, the "puppet-masters" of the American literary scene imported a new pantheon of foreign literary gods -- Jorge Luis Borges, Milan Kundera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez. The "headlong rush" to get rid of realism, Wolfe complains, resulted in statements like that of experimental novelist John Hawkes, "I began to write fiction on the assumption that the true enemies of the novel were plot, character, setting and theme...