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...provocative section of American Patriots. Shaw analyzes how the rituals of colonial society--paramount among them local celebrations of religious and secular holidays--might easily have been converted to revolutionary purposes. Such celebrations, particularly the annual Saturnalia, featuring mock overthrows of legitimate and illegitimate rulers, expressed, says Shaw, a profound ambivalence toward authority. While stating that the highly moral and serious-minded leaders of the revolution were not caught up in this almost sensual form of protest, Shaw does suggest that "their strength derived from the popular rehearsal of revolution going on around them in Massachusetts...
...sort of legislation can only make a dent in the Viet Nam vet's profound sense of exclusion, his bruised conviction that America ?a nation that cherishes almost an ideology of its own fairness?has done him deeply wrong. The vet's first port of call, the Veterans Administration, seems to him abundant evidence that the nation he risked his skin for cares very little in return. The VA is, they say, a $23 billion-a-year bureaucracy devoted mainly to older vets (the World War II generation), a social service agency dispensing health care not to the wounded...
Arab reaction, in general, stressed the fact that Labor and Likud have essentially the same foreign policy. In Cairo, however, there was deep concern and a more profound understanding of the damage a weak government could do the Camp David peace accords. Egyptian Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Butros Ghali declared that his government had hoped that a strong Israeli government would emerge, "capable of pursuing negotiations and of implementing the provisions of the peace treaty and other agreements...
Ironically, the baseball strike occurs at a moment when the game is breaking all attendance records. If the interruption goes on for long, Americans might even begin to drift away spiritually from the game. The most profound charm of baseball is an illusion, really-the illusion that the game connects America now with an earlier America that we remember (falsely, in so many ways) as democratic and sweet and robust and green and essentially innocent. The strike has slapped some unlikable touches of reality upon the illusion. The charm may be a little slow in returning. -By Lance Morrow...
...writing of The Gulag Archipelago was an unconquerable rage. No outsider in the West can hazard a judgment as to why the experience of the Gulag should have softened the heart of one prisoner while it hardened the purpose of another. Unquestionably, both pieces of testimony contain their own profound truth. -By Patricia Blake...