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...serious look at the issues. The prose, while often straight forward, becomes intolerable as Hart's conscientious stabs at eloquence fall flat--painfully highlighted by his incessant quoting of John F. Kennedy '40, whom he is clearly flying to emulate. Typical of his rhetoric are such hollow lines is. We have the experience, the means and the power to make the right choice. We cannot escape the consequences of making the wrong one," Or. "The steps outlined in this section are designed to help us bestow that sense of purpose and national will" Or. "A nation whose children...
Reagan's professed adherence to the ABM pact rings a little hollow when examined against the backdrop of his Administration's overall attitude toward, and record in, arms control and defense. In looking for a way to protect the planned MX from Soviet pre-emptive attack, civilian and military officials of the Pentagon have seriously considered various schemes for ballistic missile defenses, or BMD, a land-based system of antimissile missiles that would require drastic renegotiation if not abrogation of the 1972 treaty...
...least, was the story many of them told throughout the '30s and '40s. The figure of the gin-soaked Hollywood sell-out became such a stale literary cliche that it found its way into the movies, where the studios and their hired scribblers could enjoy a hollow laugh at each other's expense...
Most dangerous of all is the way the president's speech has been shunted aside as hollow rhetoric. If all goes well for the Administration, it will gather the enthusiastic support of conservative religious groups. And while increasingly strident, confrontationist posturing will bring the world closer to nuclear war, millions of people in the countries south of the U.S. will suffer under military rule, with body counts growing every day. All of which should be good for a few more rousing strains of "Onward, Christian Soldiers" at next year's convention of the National Association of Evangelicals...
They yield their posts reluctantly, regretfully, but with deference to the counts of their misjudgment. Not yet has the memory of the Sabra and Shatila horror released itself from Israel's conserence. And never will this moral precedent ring hollow in the car The Kahan Commission and its visible consequences had exposed the world to a country's struggle to embrace democratic ideals...