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...Looking in the Abyss is a trenchant analysis of the postmodern condition and its threat to liberalism and the liberal imagination. The subtitle of Himmelfarb's short book is 'Untimely Thoughts on Culture and Society," and she means it. By arguing for the restoration of partial truths and solid standards, Himmelfarb's book is a Modern's response to the postmodern condition. Since Himmelfarb is now a professor emeritus and a historian of nineteenth-century England, one might be tempted to discount her description of the current impoverished state of the humanities. This would be a grave mistake...
Last week, the government announced a bill in Parliament which would outlaw foreign words. The proposed law, which would effectively complete previous partial regulations, would ban the use of foreign words in public announcements, work contracts, advertising, and on radio and television. Sanctions for breaking the law would include fines and possible prison sentences...
...dated volcanic ash in nearby rocks proved that. But it took laborious work by anatomist Owen Lovejoy to prove the knee belonged to a biped -- and thus, not entirely apelike -- primate. Lucy turned up nearby a year later, but it took weeks to piece her jumbled bones into a partial skeleton and years before anthropologists could agree on her place in human evolution...
Meanwhile, if the press and congressional Republicans appear to be hounding the Clintons over what seem like minor arcane details, the White House must take much of the blame. Its response to the Whitewater mess has been not just bumbling but secretive -- giving out partial and conflicting information, coyly withholding documents, hunkering down in a way that encourages suspicion. And if the White House cannot establish that it is leveling with press and public on small matters, it will be hard-pressed to win trust on great affairs of state...
...such, even if the editors would have arrived at the same conclusion once they had the full picture, with only partial information the editorial position is per se an irresponsible...