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Britain's Foreign Secretary David Owen put the best light on a sorry situation when he observed that even as the Rhodesians "now have the seeds of their future prosperity within their grasp, so they also have the seeds of their destruction." The problem was that, with every alliance weakened by the latest events, it was hard to imagine which individual or group would be strong enough to make the next move toward a settlement...
...that with National under its wing, it will be able to compete more effectively against foreign flag carriers. Most of them are government owned or heavily subsidized; in their own countries they have the access to domestic routes that Pan Am has long sought but never been able to grasp...
...importance of both their reality and practicality. Just by thinking on such a grand scale, humanity not only enlarges its universe but expands and ennobles itself. Perhaps the ideal metaphor is not Piglet's Heffalump but Browning's famous declamation: "Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp,/ Or what's a heaven for." To the growing fraternity of black-hole theorists, that cosmic vision is the ultimate lodestar...
...smile is winning, the grasp firm. Is that a future politician swaddled in those blankets? Well, Baby Jennie's Grandpa Nixon lived in the White House and so did her Great-Grandpa Eisenhower. But Jennie's parents, Julie and David Eisenhower aren't sending her on the hustings yet. As for Nixon's view of his granddaughter's future, he says: "There's only one area I'll try to influence her in. She'll be an Angels...
...Barrett enlists them in a new cause. In Irrational Man, his classic treatise on existentialism, the author warned that man's sheer cleverness could provoke his ruin. In The Illusion of Technique, Barrett argues that even if we survive, the familiar world may well recede from our grasp, supplanted by systems that aspire to control human destiny. Barrett contends that philosophy can recall us to that world. To support his claim he cites three modern figures: Martin Heidegger, Ludwig Wittgenstein and William James. However divergent in their styles of thought, they shared Kant's conviction that freedom...