Word: note
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Nakasone and Reagan parted on an upbeat note during a final visit in the White House Rose Garden, and agreed that the trade deficit was "politically unsustainable." But both nations must now demonstrate far more than a will to discuss their problems during summit meetings. They must show that they can attack and solve the trade differences that are steadily turning the two close political and military friends into bitter economic rivals...
...those cockerel days yipped, "I can't stop more than just a few minutes, baby, make love to you, hey, hey, hey, I'm on the road again." Now when he sings it, a rooted New Hampshire householder with a wife and two young sons, there is a note of amazement in his voice: "Did I really do all that crazy stuff...
...What is much more insidious, however, and illustrates how a political opinion is passed off as political "science" is the classification of the Union of South Africa as a "satisfied society". In what sense were (are) 20 million Blacks "satisfied"? In 1968? Today? Note how Huntington's political opinion about the Union of South Africa being a "satisfied society" is embedded in a tissue of pseudo-science consisting of "equations," "correlations," decimal figure, "ratios," and a type of language which gives the illusion of science without any of its substance...
...thirties, and the "forced-draft" ruralization by the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia (a mirror image of "forced-draft urbanization"), after the U.S. invasion of that country. Such people can have whatever political opinion they want: I do not regard these opinions as science, merely political opinions and their implementations. Note how the word "modernization" occurs in a paragraph like the above, as well as on the page with the famous "equations" and the "correlation of .50." Thus Huntington gives the illusion of setting a scientific stage for his statements, but only the illusion. He is in fact deeply involved...
Leaving aside the rhetorical thrust concerning "moralism of the critics," I note that Huntington's criticism of the Administration and his dig at the "unwarranted optimism of the advocates" is all the more absurd since some of his own opinions were no more than "misplaced optimism," as we see from the passage quoted in section 3. Indeed, Robert D. Putnam in his PS article states that Huntington was guilty of "misplaced optimism about the effects of American-sponsored forced draft urbanization' on the prospects for South Vietnamese resistance to the Communist insurgency...