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...break would calm him, Lee handed the man an article on tax reform and directed him to a chair in the corner of her office. But within minutes of returning to deskside, the client was gesturing so violently with his arms that he walloped a lamp, sending it headlong into a wall and shattering the bulb. Said a sympathetic Lee: "This is the worst tax year possible...
Rooted in ancient hatreds, the unrest is fueled by the Soviet leader' s headlong rush to modernize his country. An exclusive look at the demonstrations. -- Shultz offers the Reagan Administration' s first Middle East peace plan since 1982. -- A backlash helps white extremists win a key by- election in South Africa. -- Manila' s mood is clouded two years after the People Power revolution...
...enemy of rational thought. Sometimes the medium serves brilliantly, not only to display events but also to analyze them. Ted Koppel's Nightline on ABC is intelligent and penetrating. The MacNeil/Lehrer Newshour on public television has a clear, steady eye and the time to explore issues thoroughly, without the headlong rush against the clock that was, in part, Dan Rather's problem with George Bush. With Firing Line, William F. Buckley Jr. has done a pioneer's work in civilizing discussion on television. But the temptations of television -- spectacle, flash, the short attention span, the sensationalism of the irrational...
Obviously, the printed page, the linear medium, divorces information from time: one can go back and reread and think more and read again, because the words are frozen upon the page and therefore have a sort of timeless status. TV rushes headlong through real time, and given the constrictions of schedule, it is often a second-rate instrument with which to pursue the truth. The written word can commit the profoundest treacheries with the truth, but the hope of writing is at least to preserve the active integrity of the brain that is receiving the words. Television, flowing into...
...desire not to stray too far from his conservative base also probably accounted for some of his caution in dealing with arms control at the summit. As he has pursued his visions of disarmament through strength, many Republican strategists -- notably Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger -- warned that the headlong rush to cut missiles was not being guided by any strategic vision of how the U.S. and its allies could best defend their vital interests. Yet another surprise "breakthrough" that discarded the carefully wrought strategies of deterrence could have been disconcerting...