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...inside jokes, for allusions that seem so bland and obvious on the surface, that you've got to be an insider to enjoy them. Why the mere mention of Professor Duncan Kennedy's wardrobe provokes squeals of joy from the legal eagles. And there's the food at the Hark (yuck!), and the Section Three (whatever that is, it must be a riot, and that killer of a punch line. "Even Archie Cox has his off days.") That's Archie Cox--the professor. A traditional crowd favorite is the parading of a few real-life Law School characters across...
...that goal may be complicated by opposition to Haig inside the Administration from numerous hawks and ideologues in sub-Cabinet positions, by pressure from powerful right-wing Senators, and perhaps by the hard-line instincts of the President himself. The confrontational overtones of the Reagan foreign policy to date hark back to a vigorously anti-Soviet presidential campaign and, before that, to Reagan's long career as an unabashedly old-fashioned anti-Communist speaker on the Republican rubber-chicken circuit. Reagan felt all the more justified in making anti-Sovietism the cornerstone of his foreign policy since he came...
...contrary example of Lippmann's long career, is what the press follows. Nowadays top Washington journalists get White House invitations more as a matter of ego stroking than serious consultations. It is doubtful whether either Jimmy Carter or Ronald Reagan even faithfully reads the Washington columns. Politicians today hark to the polls, not the pundits; cocooned in their own little circle of strategists, they seem indifferent to outside advice. It is not a world Lippmann could understand or accept...
...begin to understand these contributions, you have to hark back as far as the beginning of the twentieth century, to the year Albert Einstein published his theory of general relativity. This momentous theory ggested briefly two important things: first, that matter in space, and space itself, are intimately connected; and second, that time should constitute an integral, fourth dimension, unlike in Newtonian physics where it is an independent parameter. Einstein proposed that the future of physics lay in the reduction of all of its laws to these geometrical, "space-time," propositions...
...hark! A thought! It concerns, let's see, umbrellas, and?what's this??feet...