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...point is that as admirable as consistency may sometimes be, it is not the truth, and in a way it violates truth by holding the mind in a vise. Consistent people are often said to be most in control of their lives, but rather than possessing consistencies, it is their consistencies that possess them; and they probably are less in control of themselves than more erratic and volatile spirits. To maintain an unshakable view Thus the face of contrary evidence is to maintain a fiction. Thus a consistency need not be specifically "foolish," as Emerson declared, to be diminishing...
...became notorious for brutal methods when he was KGB chief in the Ukraine. "You can't imagine the scale of these sweeps at stores, restaurants, movie houses and even the public baths," said Medvedev. The purpose of the raids is to root out individuals who do not possess residence permits to live in the capital and other major cities or who have taken time off from their jobs. Medvedev described one operation at the Univermag supermarket near his home. Two busloads of uniformed police swept down upon the shoppers and demanded to examine the internal passports every Soviet citizen...
...corporate world to absorb the glut of Ph.D.s. Such universities as Harvard, Pennsylvania, Stanford, Virginia, Texas and U.C.L.A. have set up programs to retool humanities Ph.D.s for jobs in the business sector. Says Ed Escobedo, director of career planning at Stanford: "Humanists can do just about anything. They possess writing abilities, administrative abilities and the ability to work with values." Since 1978, New York University has been conducting summer crash courses in accounting, finance, economics and marketing for scholars from all over the country. Of the 271 graduates, nearly all have got jobs in the business sector. Few express regrets...
Mailer had managed to encompass the spectrum or American sensibility within himself. It was a sensibility that only the most expansive, sensitive and egotistical of American writers could claim to possess...
Well, we have proposed no fewer than 31 attributes of presidential leadership. There could be longer or shorter lists, but they would all have this in common: no one of the cited qualities is by itself rare, and indeed we all know people who possess a number of them. The problem is to find somebody with all these qualities, or all but a very few, who is willing and able to seek a major-party nomination. Better yet, to find a dozen such people, so each party can choose from among first-class candidates before presenting the electorate the final...