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...risk of appearing naive, I expect the leaders of our country to be honest, to possess integrity, to love freedom and to safeguard democracy. I still believe such people exist...
...falsity of such a statement comes to light, those who embraced it will simply turn to the next document purporting to show the I.Q. to be meaningless, immoral, culturally biased, capitalist, racist, etc. For many people, these episodes appear to generate no cumulative skepticism about the criticism. If you possess a thoughtful cast of mind, you should be piqued by this curious phenomenon, for it is a rare specimen of emotion submerging reason, of wish outweighing fact. Later, I will give some examples, drawn from last Tuesday's Crimson (November...
...sort of suspense thriller, the audience is let in on a secret that the characters do not know. In another, the characters possess some piece of knowledge that the audience is in the dark about. Inadvertently, Ira Levin has written a mystery in which his characters seem to know something that has eluded him. Veronica's Room poses a puzzle in the first act and tries to resolve it with three or four new puzzles in the second act. Result: frustration...
Arab political leaders generally avoided calling the battle a holy war. In fact, the conflict with Israel is much more complicated. Both sides possess intense national and ethnic pride. Thus some Arab Christians as well as Moslems are committed to the Arab cause; many Jews who are not at all religious have died for Israel. Yet the majority of the combatants belong to two of the world's major religions, and they are on opposite sides...
...well be deceptive to call equality of consumption "democracy"--especially when so many Americans don't possess the means to share in the consumption of most goods. But in any case, it is Boorstin's considered opinion that the application of the democratic ideal to the American condition resulted in the proliferation of low quality franchise operations, the institutionalization of mediocrity and not much else...