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...confirmed, House Speaker Carl Albert. An Administration headed by either could not fail to seem somehow less legitimate than one headed by one of a party's two candidates in the previous election. Last week Boston Mayor Kevin White and two Harvard scholars reached into history to propound a fascinating and seemingly workable alternative: a mid-term presidential election...
...that's where Dealing betrays its true Harvard colors. For the film is the kind of self-serving fantasy that one likes to propound over coffee at Hazen's at two in the morning. It's vaguely amusing kid stuff that one can afford only when the rest of the world is asleep and hence need not be faced. It permits Williams and his cohorts to claim their integrity while--rather than selling their souls--they simply let their souls slip away. It breeds a self-satisfaction just shy of true self-contempt. Dealing may be the title, but double...
...mayor of West Berlin in 1957, however, he began to question the validity of much of the West's unbending cold war dogma and its unrealistic slogans about rolling back Communism. Journalist Egon Bahr, who was his press aide and more recently his chief foreign policy adviser, began to propound the thesis of Wandel durch Annaherung (change through rapprochement), which advanced the then revolutionary idea that West Germany could influence developments within East Germany by establishing closer contacts with it. It was a concept that subsequently was expanded to include the entire East bloc. The turning point in Brandt...
...accomplished Heinlein readers do not usually take offense at those of his books which propound political philosophies contrary to everything the reader believes; for we know that, if we but wait long enough, he will write another book in which he will ardently defend exactly the opposite point of view. It is a measure of the man's incredible philosophical wishy-washiness that one of his novels, The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress, is one of the guiding tracts of the YAF, while Stranger In A Strange Land (his greatest, I might add) has helped inspire thousands of acid-freaks...
...gesture to the 83-year-old Kansan who survived his humiliation in 1936 at the hands of Franklin Roosevelt to become a minor elder statesman of the Republican Party. K-State, as political instinct and the Secret Service informed Nixon, was a comparatively safe campus on which he could propound his ideas on radical violence; Nixon won the 1968 mock election there...