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...conservatives with today's radicals is not only a just anti-imperialism, but also the authoritarian and antidemocratic temple. In the Mexican middle class, the breeding ground of our leaders, it is common to rind an amalgam of the conservative sentiments of the criollos [Mexicans of pure Spanish blood] of the 19th century with the diffuse anti-imperialist ideology of the 20th. These traditional beliefs, heirs of the criollo aristocracy, are the unconscious psychological foundation and the hidden source of the modern authoritarian ideologies professed by many Mexican intellectuals and politicians...
...incredible length of the trip to Cornell gives a visit to Lynah Rink and its infamous lans the flavor of a pilgrimage. Six hours on the road heightens the anticipation of seeing--no experiencing 4100 Cornellians pouring out their pure hatred for the Harvard hockey team...
...True, Niebuhr founded C & C in 1941 to overcome the appeal of pacifism then pervasive in the Protestant churches. But 25 years later, writing on the Viet Nam War, Niebuhr addressed a new set of realities: "The problem of indiscriminate pacifism ... has given way to the problem of curbing pure force in the international realm...
...plan also represents a potentially devastating setback to arms control. Reacting to Reagan's speech, the Soviets objected that Dense Pack would violate SALT prohibitions on building new launchers. They have a strong case. The American rebuttal that Dense Pack silos are shelters rather than launchers is pure casuistry. But that is not the biggest problem. Because hundreds of the new ICBMS would substantially increase the vulnerability of the Soviet Union's fixed-site ICBMS, the Kremlin might be induced to deploy a new generation of mobile ICBMS. Land-mobile missiles are a nightmare for both defense planning...
...each evening, a plush white-red-orange-and-yellow Dash 7 deHavilland jet takes off from New York City's Butler Marine Air Terminal in Queens. Aboard are 48 or so professional and business people, but the flight is pure pleasure, the complimentary champagne flows and, best of all, the round-trip ticket is free. Thirty-five minutes later, the aircraft touches down near Atlantic City, and after a ten-minute ride into town, the jetting junketers are at the crap and blackjack tables of Resorts International's huge Casino Hotel. Resorts expects each of them to wager...