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...research via an unmanned satellite? I stake my final rebuttal on admittedly risky ground: what Andorsky dubs that "nice sentiment" about the space station being an inspiration to humanity and a symbol of "what's right with America" and the world. Andorsky fumbles in his effort to get a grasp on the value of idealism, perhaps because there is no universally accepted definition. Yet it strikes me as significant, and compelling, that the same president who exhorted the American people to "ask what you can do for your country" also declared that "we choose to go to the Moon...
...Holocaust itself, many of the works displayed are responses to response, depictions of secondhand guilt. Several of the artists are groping in the dark, trying to understand stories which were never spoken, and history which was never quite revealed to them. In their art, they try to grasp the meaning of elusion. Why should it be so difficult to recall the Holocaust...
...serious building-a bit pretentious here and there, but with a sure grasp of primary form, sympathetic display spaces and refined detailing. It sets a benchmark for public architecture in San Francisco, a city that has been notoriously ill served by architects over the past quarter-century...
What they don't seem to grasp is that all of these services are offered on cable, a service to which 40 percent of American households do not subscribe. Many of them cannot afford...
...vision that the Tofflers and Gilder have constructed foresees the withering away -- thanks to the private access to technology -- of nation- states as they now artificially exist, of centralized authority, of outmoded political alliances and of all old-fashioned restraints on entrepreneurial imaginations. It is not hard to grasp why Gingrich the conservative outsider found this prospective shake-up attractive. But now that he has become the ultimate insider, the Speaker's reaction to the rich potential for cyberspace anarchy -- which apparently worries neither the Tofflers nor Gilder -- will be interesting to watch. Putting congressional proceedings online, which Gingrich...