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...topic for discussion that stands clearly outside the bounds of university concerns, will be able to be dismissed simply in being found unreasonable or illegitimate, and not because it has been "categorized" as such a priori. One can not be immobilized by the thought that somewhere on the distant horizon may loom a possibility that might prove hazardous. Edmund Burke-no revolutionary-wrote: "All that is necessary for the forces of evil to win in the world is for enough good men to do nothing...
MEMOIRS OF A REVOLUTIONIST by Peter Kropotkin. 519 pages. Horizon Press...
...MOON, which has sulked behind a heavy corner of clouds quite a bit lately, finally rose the other night. As late summer moons often do, it hung heavy and red just above the horizon. But, since the days of the good, impressionistic sentence are over, it is difficult to assign any particular emotion to the event. For, in a very real sense, the particular sphere in question has become just another suburb, and like Wellesley or Westchester or Chevy Chase, it is there, separated from us only by the difficulties of transportation...
...first astronauts came safely back from the moon, we should wind up manned flight and leave exploration entirely to robots. This may well rank as the silliest statement of a notably silly decade; to match it one must imagine Columbus saying: "Well, boys, there's land on the horizon-now let's go home...
Shaplen's tour d'horizon includes essays on Malaysia, Laos, Thailand, the Philippines, Singapore, Viet Nam and Cambodia. Its most compelling section explores Indonesia. In a fascinating flashback that offers a good deal of new material, Shaplen re-examines the abortive Communist coup of 1965, emphasizing the probability that President Sukarno himself was involved in the takeover attempt. Despite the bloodbath that followed and the interior problems left by the Sukarno era, Shaplen sees Indonesia, the world's fifth-largest nation (pop. 113 million), as holding the "key to the region's future...