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...someone with no imagination can imagine him." One would like to read this as an equivalent to Mozart's A Musical Joke or dialogue from the theater of the absurd. In fact, the German-born author, 66, is best known as a painter and playwright with an intellectual kinship to Samuel Beckett and Eugène Ionesco...
There is no nation in the world that the American people value more highly than Britain; none to which they feel deeper personal and moral kinship; none for which they would sacrifice more, including their lives; and none on which they so depend for precisely the same attitude. Many Irish Americans understandably don't feel this way, of course, and Hispanics and other minorities may regard the sceptered isle with vast indifference. But on the whole, affection for the Crown is intense here. This may seem odd, given America's origins, but it is so nonetheless...
When Italian President Sandro Pertini called on Ronald Reagan last week, he was welcomed with unusual warmth. As a military honor guard stood smartly at attention, Reagan spoke effusively of the "common ideals" shared by Italy and the U.S. The reception reflected more than the heartfelt kinship of elder statesmen (Reagan is 71, Pertini 85). During his eight-day U.S. visit, Pertini is being embraced as the leader of a staunch and increasingly important ally-a country that, as Reagan put it, "is no fair-weather friend but instead is an indispensable partner...
Such banality in the face of danger should persuade us that the rich are ordinary people, not nobles who feel kinship with peasants. Able only to indulge their ordinariness to a greater extent than most, they mix common human altruism with much selfish silliness. But kindness, though common, resist lumping with the ridiculous mediocrity of Kahn's patrician materialism. As Whitney wrote in 1979, his philanthropic foundation helped those who "have lived with adversity in the form of poverty or discrimination. They lean toward a practical vision of helping friends and neighbors work together on common and immediate problems rather...
...like the one in El Salvador closely resemble movements like the one in Poland. Harvard leftists who organized yesterday's rally in support of Solidarity are on the right track, for if people begin to draw the connections between different examples of oppression they will begin to sense their kinship with these people. Salvador and Poland are both examples of movements that include the vast majority of the people, that are the result of institutionalized opression, and that have faced bloody suppression. Both attempt to move their nations towards the same goal-an economy and a political democracy controlled...