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...Henry Ford said of his famed Model T had long been just as true of the telephone: Americans could have it in any color they wanted, as long as it was black. Those plain, hardy phones later evolved into a rainbow-hued array of shapes and sizes, but the instrument's electronic heart remained essentially unchanged. Now, however, the familiar telephone is undergoing rapid and dramatic improvements. Among them...
...wine. It is the victim who does the actual killing. That is why moviemakers focus so carefully on the glass of smoky milk jiggling on the silver tray as it progresses up the winding staircase toward the invalid wife. They know that we will want to follow the death instrument in the slowest motion, to see it grasped eagerly or laconically, at last to shudder. So one shudders picturing Stanley and Theresa Janus in Chicago a couple of weeks ago, stunned over the death of Stanley's brother Adam a few hours earlier, the couple sitting in despair...
...instrument of the purge, and the focus of last week's debate, was a Foot-proposed "register" of approved party organizations. Establishing such a list would permit the expulsion from Labor of members of any group not meeting certain standards of moderation. The move was aimed specifically at ridding the party of the Militant Tendency, a 6,000-member Trotskyist group that has successfully infiltrated the party organization and wielded considerable power at local levels. By advocating such policies as abolition of the monarchy, nationalization of Britain's 200 largest companies and expulsion of U.S. forces and nuclear...
...slide glibly off our minds, Friedrich fears. From war-game scenarists on down, we are all in grave danger of becoming professional waiters-for-the-end. After being a text for religious and then philosophical consternation, "the idea of the end of the world has finally become an instrument of international propaganda," Friedrich writes...
...Jewish conscience is often a splendid moral instrument, one of the most highly developed in the world. The internal anguish in Israel last week, with half the country calling for the resignation of Begin and Sharon, demonstrated that that conscience is obviously in good working order. Israel seemed to plunge abruptly into mortal fallibility, into the ambiguous mess in which most history occurs...