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This is a letter of thanks to Robert Coles. It was prompted by the insensitive parody that was done of him in his Tuesday lecture. However, I want to say at the outset that, although my first reaction to this incident was rage at the prankster. I am not writing this letter to criticize either him or the Lampoon. It would have been impossible for anyone to foretell just how inappropriate the interruption would be, and in any case they have apologized...
...reach any agreement, the world's nations would have been forced to realize how much more needs to be done to better trade relations and to prevent protectionism. Now governments can impose tariffs and other restrictions and still remain loyal to the letter of the Geneva package. At the outset of the talks, U.S. Deputy Treasury Secretary R.T. McNamar declared. "The GATT ministerial decision may well set the tone of international economics, and therefore international political relations generally for the rest of the 20th century." If so, the next 18 years will offer deceptive views of a world economy, deteriorating...
...catalogues the New Left as merely the peak of some relentless sine curve on a cycle of generational conflict or reformist sentiment. The authors emphasize the restraints on radicalism in America, invoking historian Louis Hartz's conception of a culture which assumes liberalism as a civic religion from the outset. Struggling against the strong currents of moderation, the New Left formulated a coherent criticism of the very premises of the nation's liberal tradition; it thus attracted a massive following of skeptics where earlier 20th century movements on the Left never got beyond sectarian battles over how best to attack...
...film's conceit is promising at the outset. The highly effective opening scenes show a dove like flock of young choristers running out from under the dripping Gothic gargoyles of a London church. Among them we find the darkly clad figure of a sullen young man in his early 20s (Sting). This stranger begins deliberately accosting passerby on the rainy street with an "accidental" jostle and a subsequent "Why, you're the last person I expected to see!" Someone finally falls for this deception--Thomas E. Bates(Denholm Eihott) a harried middle-aged writer of mass-produced inspirational verse...
...coup succeeded, and Afghanistan went Communist. But Mr. Brezhnev and his colleagues brushed aside the vitally important warnings that the KGB was giving them-and disaster ensued. At the outset the Politburo felt it now had a chance to make some real headway in Afghanistan. It would pour in money and advisers. Afghanistan's links with the West would be gradually severed. Afghanistan would be not only a neighboring country with whom we had good relations, like Finland, but a new member of the "Communist family...