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Activists may be obligated to push the masses faster than they wish to go-but how fast can an oppressed minority proceed against a majority? Walzer immediately rules out revolution, no matter how great the popular oppression, so long as the democratic rules can be exploited with some success. Democracy, as he defines it, involves mutual respect for the freedom to act. The activist need not fully respect the rules, but he must not undermine them...
...American Shakespeare Festival production of Othello in Stratford, Conn., perpetuates a tradition in which the play and its hero shrink with each successive revival. Moses Gunn and his director Michael Kahn proceed along the familiar tack that Othello is good, loving, noble, trusting and innocent until jealousy and grief tear him asunder. Gunn conveys all of these qualities admirably. His stage presence is commanding and his line delivery persuasive, though it is somewhat mannered when he elongates single words for emphasis...
...really. Despite its science-fiction quality, this voyage may be much closer to reality than even the movie scenarist imagined. In fact, NASA officials are so anxious to proceed with the development of the first reusable space shuttle system that a test flight may be made within five years...
...think November's protest in Washington was of some tactical value, but there's no way they'll end the war. At the other extreme, trashing and similar strategies seem to hurt the cause more than help it. Bland old liberal practicality seems the only way to proceed...
...required changes can be made easily and so quickly that NASA officials have tentatively decided to proceed with the scheduled launch of Apollo 14 in October. And at a planning session in Houston last week, space agency scientists recommended another try for the lunar landing site that Astronauts Lovell and Haise were to have explored last month: the ancient highlands near the crater Fra Mauro...