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...Michael Herr, in his book Dispatches, says that "Viet Nam was what we had instead of happy childhoods." Narcissism again. But there is a mature sense in which it is true. Viet Nam may have been a hallucination. It was surely a warning, though one not always easy to read. It was also a kind of national rite of passage, a great power learning Kipling's lesson the hard way. In The Golden Bough, Sir James Frazer describes how a tribesman chosen to be king must be enchained and thrashed before his coronation. The moral may be that a nation...
...KNOW the situation. It's Saturday night, Madame Baltin, your latest romantic prey, has become tantalizingly available with the departure of her attendant herr, but you have a lingering engagements with pesky Ida (Carolyn Casanave). Despair not if you are Baron Ferdinand Rommer (Rex D. Hays): just have ever-solicitous Gaston ring with some appropriately vague but familiar explanation--"affairs of state" and all. Cole Porter, you certainly know your noble playboys well...
...late 1960s, denounced the "garrulous dilettantism" of Kohl's coalition. Christian Democratic Coalition Parliamentary Leader Alfred Dregger was singled out for blame. He had angered the East Germans by bluntly stating in an interview with the conservative daily Die Welt that "our future does not depend upon whether Herr Honecker pays us the honor of his visit." The East German Communist Party daily Neues Deutschland labeled the remarks "scandalous and provocative abuse" and added that Honecker "in the face of such developments is not pushing for a visit to the Federal Republic...
...opposition to Adolf Hitler; in Wiesbaden, West Germany. A U-boat commander during World War I, he became a minister in the Lutheran Evangelical Church in 1924. Though an early Nazi supporter, Niemöller led the clerical opposition after Hitler came to power in 1933, crying, "Not you, Herr Hitler, but God is my Führer." Hitler responded by sending him to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp in 1938 and later to Dachau. After the war's end, Niemöller worked to rebuild the Protestant Church in Germany, and served as co-president of the World Council...
...because they limit future profits. One of the first big drug firms to license gene-splicing technology was Eli Lilly (1983 sales: $3 billion). Now it has assembled its own team of scientists and is rushing to develop a hormone that stimulates milk production in cows. Says Earl B. Herr Jr., president of its research laboratories: "If you're in a horse race, you have to win. The first company in the market will grab a big share, and each guy that comes later will grab a smaller...