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...role in Bedtome for Bonzo. The Great Communicator, they will tell you, is also the Great Sleeper, a man who dozes off during cabinet meetings, wanders off during national debates, and takes off for his ranch rather than sit around the White House to deal with issues of global import...
Even if the Soviets decide to import thousands of machines, the Kremlin is not expected to permit a Western-style computer revolution. The government has not allowed ordinary Soviet citizens to own personal computers. Even if the machines became available, few people could afford one. The Agat costs at least $3,600, far more than the typical worker's annual salary...
...House, following the lead of the Senate the week before, voted 394 to 19 for a nonbinding resolution that called on President Reagan to take steps against Japan for failing to lower import barriers. Said Michigan Democrat John Dingell, chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee: "The time for tabletalk negotiations has ended. The President must tell our Japanese trading partner that this nation can no longer sit idly by while Japan's unfair and discriminatory trade practices build and expand Japanese industry at the expense of American firms and workers." In the Senate, the Finance Committee reported...
Beyond that, the Japanese point out, the U.S. is not entirely free of protectionist reflexes. Besides negotiating the "voluntary" restraint on cars, the Reagan Administration has imposed a 25% import duty on Japanese small trucks. As for the allegedly aggressive takeover of U.S. consumer markets, Yardeni admits succinctly, "Part of the problem is that the Japanese make awfully good products." Also, U.S. businessmen bring a few cultural barriers of their own to the bargaining, starting with their reluctance to become fluent in the language of their prospective clients. Jokes an official of the Foreign Ministry in Tokyo...
When James Joyce wanted to symbolize exile, he did it with a Jew, Leopold Bloom of Ulysses. American Jewish writers did not hesitate to import this conceit, making the Jew-as-outsider one of the durable cliches in the national literature. But the facts of life were quite different from the fiction of alienation. By the end of World War II, the sons and daughters of ghetto immigrants were well on their way to becoming deeply rooted members of the middle class. Their semiofficial arrival can be dated to 1955. That was the year Herman Wouk published Marjorie Morningstar...