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...Shachar appears to be living in a universe where criticism, rhetoric and fiery distribes are directly linked with shootings, bombings and mass exterminations. The inhabitants of this universe are evidently unthinking, childlike automatons who blindly follow the loudest madman they can find. It is a universe of two-year-olds, where words are direct and magical forces that immediately cause actions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Threat Is Not Speech | 12/1/1995 | See Source »

...Buttons Show (Mad About You). 12: The Jack Benny Program (Madman of the People). 13: Life with Luigi (Ellen). 14: Pabst Blue Ribbon Bouts (Hope & Gloria). 15: Goodyear Television Playhouse (Frasier). 16: The Life of Riley (Murphy Brown). 17: Mama (20/20). 18: Your Show of Shows (CBS Sunday Movie). 19: What's My Line? (NBC Monday Night Movies). 20: Strike It Rich (Dave's World...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: THE REAL GOLDEN AGE IS NOW | 10/30/1995 | See Source »

...theory voiced by ATF agents holds that the agency's skittishness may have contributed to its spectacular failure in the initial 1993 raid at Waco, in which four agents and six Branch Davidians were killed. David Koresh, so the theory went, made an ideal safe target -- an apparent madman leading a cult that had armed itself with vast quantities of weapons. While it was the FBI that directed the final assault in which 81 people died, it was the ATF that targeted the compound in the first place. Says Kubicki, without a trace of irony: "Waco was a need...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ATF UNDER SIEGE | 7/24/1995 | See Source »

...expose the lack of courage on the part of the western democracies, your President wrote a letter to the Czechoslovak President imploring him to come to some agreement with Hitler. Had he not deceived himself and the whole world into believing that an agreement could be made with this madman, had he instead shown a few teeth, perhaps the Second World War need not have happened and tens of thousands of young Americans need not have died fighting...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Commencement 1995 | 6/24/1995 | See Source »

...televisionand the computer--can be turned against us andused to our detriment. How much easier it is todaythan it was during the First World War to destroyan entire metropolis in a single air-raid. And howmuch easier would it be today, in the era oftelevision, for a madman like Hitler or Stalin topervert the spirit of a whole nation. When havepeople ever had the power we now possess to alterthe climate of the planet or deplete its mineralresources or the wealth of its fauna and flora inthe space of a few short decades? And how muchmore destructive potential do terrorists...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Commencement 1995 | 6/24/1995 | See Source »

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